Regional areas outside Toowoomba city will have a one hundred and eighty seven dollar access fee, because their water is supplied by a different company.

Every kilo litre over the quota will cost up to a dollar fifty, meaning some residents will get the shock of their lives when the rates arrive.

Council is blaming the rate rise on the one hundred and eighty seven million dollar Wivenhoe pipeline, the cost to maintain it, and the State government's withdrawal of the forty percent infrastructure subsidy.

Water infrastructure costs have soared to almost a billion dollars in this region alone.

No additional support has been provided for pensioners who will feel the impact of the rate rise,

But council maintains it was a decision that had to be made.

It's news that rate payers didn't want to hear.

On the twelfth of November the first water rate notice will be sent out to Toowoomba residents,