The PT Palyja water company has repeatedly asked the government to raise water tariffs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

What happens in many poor neighborhoods is that a small group takes control of the water kiosk or communal tank and sets its own tariffs for the water it sells by container.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

To catch up, it is having to raise water tariffs above English levels.

ECONOMIST: Private passions

The contractor managed to cut water tariffs and to extend 24-hour service to an extra 3m poor people, who found that their piped supplies cost one-tenth or less of what they had been paying to private water vendors.

ECONOMIST: Private passions

MPs also voted down Labour's plans to introduce minimum standards for water company social tariffs by 1 April 2013.

BBC: Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill