Rates

Integrated Water Service Rates

Through the rates invoiced in the bill are covered the efficient costs of the service, i.e. the costs necessary to keep efficient that complex network of plants that make water available and safe: aqueducts, tanks, distribution networks, collectors and purifiers that, by collecting the black water from the sewers, return it safely to the environment. This system constitutes the Integrated Water Service, which the user pays only for the part that he actually uses (for example, if a purification system does not work in his territory, the relative fee will not be included in the tariff).

The tariffs are defined by the Regulatory Authority for energy networks and environments (Arera) and are homogeneous in the way they are calculated throughout the national territory, although they may vary for different territories because the costs for the provision of the service are very different for different areas of the country.
In the province of Brescia, the reference for tariffs is the Ato, the Office of territorial scope.

Rates include:

• a fixed fee, independent of water consumption, expressed in euro/year;
• a variable fee, in relation to water consumption, expressed in euro/mc.

Fixed fee 

The fixed fee is the part of the price, expressed in Euro/year, that you pay to have the active supply, even in the absence of consumption.

Variable quota

The variable share for sewerage and purification maintains the same value for any level of annual consumption, while that for aqueduct is divided into annual consumption bands. For resident domestic users, a first preferential band must be provided, applied to the essential amount of water needed to meet basic needs (at least 50 liters / inhabitant / day, which corresponds to 18.25 mc/inhabitant / year).

With the bill are also invoiced the tariff components defined by the Authority to cover charges of a general nature, and value added tax (VAT).