Águas de Portugal announced that it will form a protocol with the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP), to create a single tariff for the price of water.
After the news that, in Portugal, the water is “increasingly deeper”, Águas de Portugal will enter into a protocol with ANMP, for the creation of a flat water price tariff.
The National Water Plan should only be presented in December, but the topic has already been addressed by the president of Águas de Portugal, Antonio Carmona Rodriguesat the XV Jornada Fenareg – Irrigation Meeting 2024, this Tuesday, in Fundão.
However, according to , the unification of the single tariff It is not a peaceful measure between municipalities.
“If some understand and respect the municipal management law itself, which points to sustainability in these matters, there are others who think that the cost of water will make even a penny worse, it will further impoverish the region and contribute to the depopulation”, considered Antonio Carmona Rodrigues.
However, the director believes that ANMP’s participation in this process will contribute to understanding between the municipalities.
“The gap in amounts paid by the Portuguese in the global water bill is getting deeper”reported to , this Tuesday.
Amarante, Oliveira de Azeméis, Ovar, Albergaria-a-Velha and Baião are the five municipalities where the global electricity bill 120 cubic meters is higher, and Fundão, Oliveira de Azeméis, Santa Maria da Feira, Amarante and Espinho are the municipalities with a bill of 180 cubic meters annual consumption.
Also this Tuesday, in statements to , the vice-president of ANMP José Ribau Esteves defended a single tariff on water bills to avoid and resolve current discrepancies between local authorities.
“At the ANMP level, we have been putting pressure on the various governments to take measures so that we can achieve, in terms of water costs, what was already achieved many years ago in electricity: We have a single tariff”, he said.
“There is the will and intensity of work to make it possible. But finally, the history in this and other dossiers does not point in that direction“, he lamented.
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