Received the following suggestion via mail today; “Should the R260 million in water consumption penalties collected by the council not be used to complete the pipe line system.”
Whilst agreeing with the sentiment I also have some concerns with the figures reported in yesterday’s council by Acting Municipal Manager, Elias Ntoba who reported that average water sales during normal consumption was R28 million and R41 million during the water restrictions.
If the daily water consumption figures as reported by Barry Martin’s water department are correct then the Metro is losing a HUGE amount of water through leakage / Assistance to the Poor (ATTP) / shrinkage and write offs.
See: I am Gonna Give You 16 Million Reasons Why The Water Restrictions Weren’t Lifted for more clarity on the workings below.
The reason why I say so is simple:
- If you take the ‘normal consumption period’ from January 2009 to March 2010 the average water consumption per day was 270.6 megalitres.
- Times 270.6 megalitres * 1000 * 30.44 * 6.60 (Average – to kilolitres * no of days in a month * Domestic Tariff ONLY) then you get a figure of R 54 362 622.40 of sales per month.
- NOW – the above figure is extremely conservative as it only takes the lowest domestic rate into consideration and does not factor in commercial, industrial rates nor consumption above 0.8 kilolitres per day.
Maybe Elias Ntoba and Barry Martin should try and match their figures up?
