The Water and Sewerage Authority, WASA, says it has submitted no document to the Regulated Industries Commission for the proposal of a rate increase.

It comes as a file purported to be the Authority’s draft business plan for 2022-2027 was leaked to non-WASA personnel.

WASA clarifies that it is indeed seeking a rate increase, however it is still preparing documentation for the RIC.

“To date, WASA has not received the approval for submission to the RIC of any of the documents that must be submitted for the purposes of the rate review exercise, save for the Cost of Service Study which is a factual examination of the cost to provide the service against the rates currently being received,” WASA said in a statement on Sunday.

It added: “All documents prepared for the purposes of the rate review, including the purported draft, have been prepared without the input of the Ministry of Public Utilities or indeed any directive from any government official at all, save that WASA was required to take all steps necessary to progress the application to the RIC for a rate review. The RIC has set out, in several forms, what that will require of WASA.”