This picture shows municipal water prices per cubic meter in a number of countries around the world. This image doesn’t show the cost of waste water treatment. Canada: $0.31, Spain: $0.47 United States: $0.40-0.80, Ireland: 0.61, Sweden: $0.69, Italy: 0.70, Finland: 0.77, United Kingdom: 1.28 Netherland$1.30, France: $ 1.35 and Germany: 2.16. The poor pay much more than usual, but often contaminated.