Sydney households face a $168 increase in water bills next year and a hike of more than 34 per cent by 2030 after the pricing regulator heeded calls for consumers to bear greater hip-pocket pain to finance infrastructure upgrades.

The 2025-26 price increase for Sydney Water customers was nearly double what the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) had indicated it would set in a draft determination handed down in late May , and means the typical annual household bill will jump to $1328 in the next financial year.

Household bills will increase by 13.8 per cent in the next financial year, about double the 6 per cent rise flagged in the draft report that did not include inflation. Bills will increase by 5.1 per cent plus inflation for each of the following four years, above

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