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Table 3 Equivalent water bills per month when the amount of drained water from distillation
process found in Table 2 was converted to water tariff in other countries
Countries
Water tariff
Dollars/monthly RM a /monthly
Penang
RM 0.32 (Free Malaysia
Today 2017)
–
711.03
Sweden
$0.58 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
1288.74
2603.26
Canada
$0.40 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
888.79
2817.46
South Africa
$0.47 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
1044.33
3195.64
USA
$0.51 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
1133.20
4419.50
Spain
$0.57 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
1266.52
6142.64
Ireland
$0.63 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
1399.84
6789.23
Finland
$0.69 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
1533.16
7435.82
Singapore
$1.17 (Singapore’s National
Water Agency 2017)
2599.71
7747.12
Italy
$0.76 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
1688.70
8190.18
France
$1.23 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
2733.02
1,1424.04
Netherlands
$1.25 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
2777.46
13,470.70
UK and Northern Ireland $1.18 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
2621.93
14,499.25
Australia
$2.35 (Team Poly 2016)
5221.63
16,448.14
Belgium
$1.54 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
3421.83
16,595.90
Denmark
$1.64 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
3644.03
17,673.55
Germany
$1.91 (Every Little drop
story 2010)
4243.96
20,583.22
a The currency conversion to Malaysian Ringgit (RM) is based on currency on 31 January 2018.
Lowest water tariff was taken based on first one thousand meter cube. This is excluding any surcharge
after usage of water reaches 35,000 L