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The deputies of the Socialist Group and IU-Greens, Pedro Lopez and Nacho Tornel, respectively, again warn of the privatization process that is experiencing Emuasa municipal company, owned 51% by the City of Murcia, on requiring the Local government research to clarify all doubts.

Both councilors also claim that water management is one hundred percent and municipal rates are approved in plenary because "we are talking about a basic public service", have echoed the complaints of workers that computing Emuasa claim that they are emptied of content-a gradual process outsourcing-services they have been providing for years, among which are, to cite some examples, the server payroll, the geographic information service, or the mail server.

HR Decapitalization

The most recent report Tornel Lopez and refers to the hiring of "Supply and implementation of a customer information system", which was resolved in February 2013 through a public competition and the only company Aqualogy Services Company was presented, belonging to the Agbar Group.

Is that group, as have both councilors, which imposes Emuasa withdrawing its own management system customers to purchase the newly-imposed from Barcelona, ​​despite adverse reports of the directors of area Emuasa always have appealed to the greater functionality versus proprietary systems implemented by the Agbar Group.

In this sense, Lopez and Tornel doubt the need to get this new system, when Emuasa has proven over time to have own resources and technological capacity.

Irregularities??

To this must be added the concerns raised about the procurement of the new system for which a tender is made in 2013, when in April 2011 the Agbar Group's companies already billed to Emuasa by concepts the use of that customer information system, despite not being resolved tender.

Low autonomy and control

Another aspect on which both councilors insist is the appropriation of resources and sensitive data by the Agbar Group, which certainly limits the autonomy of the municipal water company and the ability of public control by the City of Murcia, so the expense of renting a computer system, which reaches the figure of 2,201,157.97 euros and payment for maintenance is added.

"Many unknowns about the direction and management of a company, Emuasa, which seems to be mostly public at the mercy of the private sector, while the city of Murcia exerts less and less control" reported Lopez and Tornel.

Make water a public service

Deputies of the PSOE and IU-Greens recalled that both political parties voted against the last two water increases approved by the Board of Directors of Emuasa, when, in addition, the municipal company earned profits last year worth five million euros.

Water defended-is possible speculative, since it is a public good staple on the City Council should have control passing rates in plenary and also being adopted and who would approve budgets Emuasa company.

Source: PSOE Murcia