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Grade A
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Cost of 1,000 litres
$ 1.89
standardized household · 15 m³ a month
A month, water
$ 28.34
$ 340 a year
A month, with wastewater
$ 73.40
wastewater 61% of the bill
How much of the bill is wastewater
New York
61%
Paris
57%
Sydney
51%
London
41%
Tokyo
41%
Hong Kong
37%
Singapore
34%
How much of the bill sits outside the volumetric rate
Perth
86%
Singapore
63%
Paris
57%
Seoul
42%
Dubai
25%
Sydney
17%
London
14%
Abu Dhabi
5%
New York
0%
Both comparisons are proportions, so they hold across currencies. The bills themselves do not, and are not compared.
Cost by volume
A household on 5,000 litres a month pays about 58% more per litre than one on 25,000, because the fixed charges spread over less water.
Where the water comes from
Surface
Effectively a single surface system — Catskill/Delaware and Croton.
Sources, assumptions and data quality
ComparabilityGrade A
Tariff effective2026-07-01
ReconciledNot against an invoice
Reference connectionMetered residential service — the residential tariff carries no connection-size parameter. The Rate Schedule sets one metered rate per 100 cubic feet with no connection-size parameter, and the minimum charge is per day rather than per meter size — confirmed, not inferred, on 17 August 2026.
ValidationSource verified ✓ · Calculation verified ✓ · Public reconciliation —. A utility publishes a tariff, not a worked example of this benchmark; an absent reconciliation is reported, not treated as a defect in the figure.
Publication · water supplyPublished
Publication · total water servicesPublished
subsidised tariffno
nationality dependentno
wastewater includedno
fixed chargeno
consumption blocksno
variable surchargeno
SourceNew York City Water Board — Water and Wastewater Rate Schedule, effective July 1, 2026
SourceNew York City Water Board — Rate History — metered water and sewer rates from Fiscal Year 1980