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Advisory on tariff structure for urban water supply and sewerage services

This advisory on tariff structure for urban water supply and sewerage services is an effort to provide guidance to states and cities in adopting suitable water/sewerage tariff so as to recover 100% cost to meet at least O&M requirements to begin with. This will improve the service delivery to the customers in water and sewerage sector. Financial sustainability is critical for the basic urban services. In services like water supply, benefits received by the consumers are direct and easily quantified.