If you use private water, you discharge into the same sewer system as other users. Therefore, you must also contribute to the use and maintenance of both the municipal and supra-municipal sanitation infrastructure.

• For the discharge of your private water via municipal sewers and channels, you pay a municipal fee. This fee varies by municipality.

• Your waste water is then treated at a waste water treatment plant at supra-municipal level. That is why you have to pay a supra-municipal fee. This fee is the same throughout Flanders.