A liter of drinking water supplied to residents of Tashkent costs 1.4 soums, officials of Uzsuvtaminot JSC said at a press conference in the capital on Oct. 30.
Tashkent has the lowest drinking water tariff, at 1,400 soums per cubic meter, officials said. The highest is in Surkhandarya province, at 6,800 soums.
“This tariff has not changed since Dec. 15, 2023,” officials said of the Tashkent rate.
The average residential tariff in Uzbekistan is 4,217 soums per cubic meter, or 4.22 soums per liter.
An analysis presented at the event put the average store price of bottled water at 4,000 soums. At that price, one bottle would pay for 2,860 liters of tap water supplied to residents of the capital, it found.
