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Sewage collection and wastewater treatment (“sanitation”) is another type of service considered. This service is particularly important for reducing the pollution pressure on surface and groundwater resources and freshwater ecosystems. European citizens pay on average between 0,27-4,52 Euro/m3 for sanitation services. The service price paid by users in 19 RBDs covers over 100% of the financial costs associated to keeping the collection and treatment system operational (e.g. 119% in Odra RBD, Czechia). In further 18 RBDs the financial cost recovery ranges between 80-100%, and in 4 RBDs between 60-80%. Financial cost recovery for this service is less than 60% in 4 RBDs (10% in Azores RBD, Portugal; 2.5% in the international RBD of the Seine, Belgium; 1% in the international RBD of the Scheldt, Belgium). 10 RBDs did not report data on financial cost recovery for this service.
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As stated before, in the Netherlands sewage collection and wastewater treatment are considered to be two seperate water services, each with it's own cost recovery mechanism (and responsible authority). I do have some problems with the fact that this report tends to suggest that in the Netherlands we do not have cost recovery for 'sanitation', although the reason why the Netherlands is not included in the numbers presented here is only because we consider sewerage collection and wastewater treatement as seperate water services (both with cost recovery rates close to 100%). I would like to have a footnote somewhere acknowledging this.
NL reports Sanitation under "other services" (mixed) to the WFD RBMP database, so it cannot be shown with the rest countries. It is not clear to us why sanitation was not reported as sanitation by the Member States.
As stated before, in the Netherlands we do not have a price per m3 for wastewater, but the tariff is related to the number of pollution equivalents. In this way we make sure that each polluter pays.
With respect to households, it may be questionnable whether paying per m3 would stimulate people to discharge less wastewater. Do we really expect that charging people per m3 wastewater will result in people going to the toilet less often? So here, the incentive can be expected to be negligable. For industries the discussion is different. Also there we charge according to pollution loads, but they often have options to reduce their load, or can decide to treat their wastewater themselves (self service; 100% cost recovery).
... in 4 RBDs (10% in Azores RBD, Portugal; 2.5% in the international RBD of the Seine, Belgium; 1% in the international RBD of the Scheldt, Belgium). - the listed RBDs are only 3 and not 4 as mentioned before the brackets.
Last sentence is unclear. 10 RBDS is only correct if these 10 RBDs reported costs on the other service but not this.
How many RBDs did not report any cost data? Are they counted here?
Countries report combined services but not cost recovery % (i.e. NULL).