Da Nang Water Price Per m3 (2026): Official Tiers and the Tenant Rule

Urban households in six districts (names as in the December 2024 table): 4,550 VND/m3 for the first 10 m3, 5,460 VND/m3 for 11–30 m3, 6,810 VND/m3 from 31 m3. Prices are per meter per month and include VAT. The former Quang Nam area has a separate tariff, higher than the Da Nang tariff.

Since 1 January 2025, the price table for urban households in six districts starts at 4,550 VND/m3 for the first 10 m3 and rises through two more tiers.

The Da Nang People’s Committee issued Decision 2967/QĐ-UBND on 31 December 2024, applied from 1 January 2025. The former Quang Nam area has a separate tariff, higher than the Da Nang tariff.

For tenants, Circular 145/2025/TT-BTC counts every 4 people as one household unit when a landlord buys water for student or worker tenants.

This guide covers price; for water quality, see Da Nang tap water safety.

The household water price under Decision 2967/QĐ-UBND

The Da Nang People’s Committee issued Decision 2967/QĐ-UBND on 31 December 2024. It sets the retail price of household clean water in Da Nang city, as the city stood in December 2024.

Bills follow it from 1 January 2025; the decision itself took effect on 31 December 2024. The tiers split by customer group: urban households in six districts, and rural households in Hoa Vang district. District names are as in the December 2024 table.

The city government portal (danang.gov.vn) publishes the decision and this table. These prices already include VAT, but not the environmental-protection fee for rural areas or the drainage and wastewater-treatment service charge for urban areas.

The tiered rural scale applies to rural households except those in Hoa Phu and Hoa Bac communes. The price increase is about 13% for those rural households and for urban households.

The provincial People’s Committee sets the retail price of clean water, but its average retail price must sit within the clean-water price bracket that the Ministry of Finance announces.

A new Ministry of Finance circular on water pricing took effect on 15 February 2026. It replaced the 2021 circular that set the price bracket, principles and method for household clean-water prices. The new circular’s transitional rule keeps a water price that a provincial People’s Committee already decided in force until that committee issues a new decision.

How the tenant counting rule works

Circular 145/2025/TT-BTC took effect on 15 February 2026. Below is its rule for a landlord who buys water to supply tenants, first in the original Vietnamese and then in English translation.

Trường hợp chủ nhà là bên mua nước sạch của đơn vị cấp nước để cung cấp cho các khách hàng là học sinh, sinh viên và người lao động thuê nhà để ở thì cứ 04 người (căn cứ vào xác nhận thông tin về cư trú tại địa phương và hợp đồng thuê nhà) được tính là một hộ sử dụng nước, số người lẻ ít hơn 04 người được tính là một hộ làm cơ sở áp giá nước theo giá hộ dân cư theo bậc thang cho các khách hàng sử dụng nước sạch.

Where the landlord is the one who buys clean water from the water supplier to provide it to student or worker tenants renting a place to live, every 4 people — based on a residency-information confirmation and the lease contract — count as one household unit for water use; a remainder of fewer than 4 people still counts as one unit; this counting is the basis for applying the tiered household price to these tenant customers.

Thông tư 145/2025/TT-BTC, Điều 7 khoản 2.

In the circular’s wording, this counting is the basis for applying the tiered household price to the customers using the water. The text names no price cap for a landlord reselling water to tenants. The text also does not say how the 10 and 30 m3 tier limits apply when one meter serves several household units.

For the equivalent landlord rule on electricity, see Landlord electricity price in Vietnam.

The fine for selling above a state-set price

The general price-violation decree sets this fine. Below is the rule in the original Vietnamese, then in English translation. The decree does not mention landlords who resell water to tenants, so it is unclear whether the fine covers them.

Phạt tiền từ 10.000.000 đồng đến 20.000.000 đồng đối với một trong các hành vi sau: a) Hành vi bán không đúng mức giá hàng hóa, dịch vụ do Nhà nước định giá cụ thể; b) Hành vi bán cao hơn mức tối đa của khung giá do Nhà nước ban hành;

Biện pháp khắc phục hậu quả: Buộc trả lại cho khách hàng toàn bộ tiền chênh lệch do bán cao hơn mức giá quy định do hành vi vi phạm gây ra tại điểm a, điểm b và điểm d khoản 1 Điều này.

Selling goods or services at a price other than the specific price the State has set, or selling above the maximum of a price bracket the State has issued, is fined 10,000,000–20,000,000 VND. As a remedial measure attached to that fine, the violator must refund the customer the full amount of the price difference caused by the violation.

Nghị định 87/2024/NĐ-CP, Điều 10 khoản 1, khoản 2.

That fine level applies to an individual. The decree’s maximum fine is 150,000,000 VND for an individual and 300,000,000 VND for an organization. For an organization, the fine and the fining authority over it are twice the individual’s.

This decree took effect on 12 July 2024. It replaced the rules on penalties for price violations in an earlier 2013 decree and in its 2016 amendment.

This decree covers Vietnamese and foreign individuals and organizations that commit the violations it sets out. A household business or a family household that commits a violation under the decree is fined at the individual level.

For the fine that applies specifically to electricity overcharging, see Landlord electricity price in Vietnam.

After the Da Nang–Quang Nam merger

As of December 2025, the former Quang Nam area has a separate, higher household water tariff than the former Da Nang area. Qnawaco, the Quang Nam water company, set four tiers for the new wards of the former Quang Nam province, applied from July 2025. Most residents of the former Quang Nam area are supplied by Qnawaco.

Qnawaco charges 8,954 VND/m3 for the first 10 m3, 11,177 VND/m3 for 10–20 m3, 13,400 VND/m3 for 20–30 m3 and 15,624 VND/m3 above 30 m3.

The top unit price in the former Quang Nam area is more than double the Da Nang tier-3 price. Someone in the former Quang Nam area using over 30 m3 pays almost twice as much as someone in the former Da Nang area.

Under a city plan, in 2026-2027 the Department of Construction is to lead a review of the retail household water price in Da Nang city and issue an adjustment. This guide sets out the price and the tenant counting rule. It is not advice on a dispute with a specific landlord.

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Not confirmed: Which company bills your address, Dawaco or Qnawaco, and whether the urban or rural price applies after the 2025 ward changes: check a recent bill. How tier limits scale when one meter serves several household units. What the drainage charge and environmental-protection fee add.

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