In the capital, commercial buildings will likely start paying fees for waste water treatment by the end of this year, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt stated yesterday (Saturday) that the city does not currently charge families or business buildings for the service and spends around 600 million baht a year operating its eight waste water treatment facilities.
According to him, Category 2 commercial buildings will pay 4 Baht every cubic meter of waste water discharged into the drainage system, while Category 3 commercial buildings, which include hotels and large commercial buildings, will pay 8 Baht per cubic metre.
The charges are based on the assumption that commercial buildings utilize 80% of the tap water that is typically considered to be dumped as waste water into the drainage system.
According to Governor Chadchart, it will be more economical to transfer to the BMA’s facilities rather than operating the systems in commercial buildings with their own treatment facilities.
He claimed that water treatment bills for households would be waived.
