Water, 317 euros / year average cost for a typical family of 3 people

With reference to a sample of 85 managements (which provide the water service to approximately 35 million inhabitants), for the year 2020 the average annual expenditure incurred by a typical resident domestic user (family of 3 people, with annual consumption equal to 150 cubic meters), amounts to 317 euros / year at national level, with a more contained value in the North-West (244 euros / year) and higher in the Center (380 euros / year), the latter area in which the competent have planned, for the period 2020-2023, a higher per capita expenditure for investments to be financed through tariffs. This is what emerges from the Annual Report of Arera, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment, with 2020 data for electricity, gas, water, waste. This expense, Arera notes, is made up, on average, of fees for the aqueduct service for 39.6%, for sewerage and purification services for 12.8% and 29.6%, and the fixed amount for 9% and taxes (VAT) for 9%.