Bahrain: All expatriates, large companies and industries will be affected by the higher tariffs for water and electricity which will start to take effect from March 1.
Bahrainis are exempted from the new rates except those who have more than one household which they do not use for their personal purposes.
Other exemptions include Bahraini divorcees, widows, single women aged above 21, Bahrainis living in rented accommodation, Bahraini women married to non-Bahrainis, non-Bahrainis taking care of Bahraini children aged below 21 and non-Bahraini heirs who will continue to pay the old rates.
Medium and small businesses will continue paying the flat 16 fils per unit for electricity, which is
the regular usage from 1 to 5,000 units.
The new prices will save the government BD435.4 million in four years with BD290m being saved from electricity and BD145.4m from water.
According to the new rates effective from next month, the electricity tariff for domestic usage (from 1 unit to 3,000 units) will see over a nine-fold increase from the present three fils per unit to 29 fils by 2019.
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