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MURCIA NOW urge that the City establish that drinking water in the municipality should be subject to a rate rather than the current rates, a move that will conform to the law, a significant reduction in the bill of the neighbors and has ceased to exist water shortages by default.
For this purpose, the municipal formation registered a motion to be presented at the next plenary.
Councillor and now spokesman Murcia, Alicia Morales, explained that the performance of the public platform, related to a judgment of the Supreme Court in November 2015, which definitively sanctioned the rate and manner in which the taxpayers have to pay for the municipal water supply.
"I mean," he noted, "the service and distribution of drinking water should be subject to a fee regardless of the mode of management of this resource, even if it is through a concession or public company. In short, this statement he has settled the legal dispute over the nature of the charge on the water. "
For its part, the mayor Luis Bermejo, said that "there are currently no detailed record of the costs of water service in the city" and that the initiative will allow Murcia now know them, "according to them, set the rate" .
In this regard, the council recalled that Murcia "has the face of Spain water, and the price is not justified by the costs of operating Emuasa, but poor management in the past and excessive fixed dividends and previously established in the present. "
After this detailed study, prices collected the actual cost of water service, ensuring that these costs will be supervised by intervention.
"Our estimate with the data currently available," said Bermejo, "is that the application of a fee that could reduce up to 20% over the current price."
The mayor also advance when to apply from the city's new legislation in this field, "can not be shut off water to nadir by default, regardless of the administrative procedure that the City carried out to try to collect."
Said adaptation of municipal legislation will be implemented by modifying the tax ordinance and Water Supply Regulations, through the Governing Board and the Plenary. "
Alicia Morales stressed that "the judgment of the Supreme Court recognized that access to water is a fundamental right and a universal public service, and therefore should not be subject to private business."
For spokeswoman Now Murcia, "it is another step in the recovery of the public, democracy and transparent, since water has become the municipality in order to private business with virtually no public scrutiny".
The councilor also pointed out that the sentence "recognizes a demand for citizens and civic groups that have spent many years fighting."
Exactly a member of one of these platforms, Miguel Angel Alzamora, the Assembly Public Water 100%, congratulated Now Murcia "by this new way of doing politics, collecting the demands of social movements. The need for such training is a very important step for our demands full redistricting water service, which involves the necessary democratic control in the management of this common good and recognition in our regulations the human right to water. "
Finally, the regional deputy can Andrés Pedroza said that "the initiative now Murcia is a very important for the management of public water above, and from the Murcia region we are going to extend to other municipalities, since 90 % of municipalities in the region suffers similar to that of Murcia "situation.
The framework now existing joint venture with private part ayto 51 and 49, should be revised.
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Source: Ahora Murcia
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