Icon Water wants price rise to cover ACT's growing water, sewerage infrastructure bill

Jasper Lindell
July 5 2022 - 5:30am
Canberra water users would pay more under a pricing proposal put forward by Icon Water to cover growing infrastructure costs. Picture: Sagi Biderman
Canberra water users would pay more under a pricing proposal put forward by Icon Water to cover growing infrastructure costs. Picture: Sagi Biderman

A typical Canberra family would have to stump up another $70 every year for the next half a decade to cover their water and sewerage bill, under a proposed price increase to meet the costs of upgrading infrastructure and adapting to climate change.

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Jasper Lindell

Jasper Lindell

Assembly Reporter

Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.

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