Price Review 2019

Every water user should be able to have a customer contract

Currently only land owners are able to have Customer Contracts. This is unfair. Tenants are prohibited from holding Customer Contracts and do not pay for sewer and other services. With Electricity, gas, mobile phone etc the user holds the Customer Contract, gets the benefits and can take part in user pays arrangements.

in-house water system that filters the water before you drink it

Retirement villages should be able to take advantage of pensioner water rebates.

8 out of 10 residents in my village are pensioners yet are unable to access even a partial rebate.

every park in the Hunter should have its own sterilizable water bubbler system

that's still life is still water and then it still alive has to bubble up as well but better tasting water

User Pays per litre. No connection fee

If the connection fee/service charge was removed from our water bills and you only paid per litre of water you acually used it would be a huge water efficiency measure. People would save water because it would be more expensive per litre. So the average person would pay the same to hunter water per year. But those wasting/using more water would pay more, and those using less would pay more. There is next to no incentive to save water (except for being a good citizen that doesn't want more dams or desal plants built) with it being so cheap as it is per litre at the moment. When is HUnter water going to implement this "User pays" water efficiency measures?