The full City Council has given the green light users do not pay all the water consumed at the price of the stretch to reach, but every consumer segment will apply for the block rate, the price is maintained.
The full City Council has approved Lorca this morning that the concessionaire of water supply in the town, Aguas de Lorca, modify the application system of its current rates since 2006, applying the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice Murcia, which at the request of the Federation of Consumers and Users FACUA-Consumur, which declared it illegal.
Councilman Water, Melchor Morales, explained that thanks to these new rates "users will not pay all the water consumed at the price of the stretch to reach, but every consumer segment will apply for the block rate, the price is maintained. "
The mayor has stated that "the collection system was outlawed implanted with a municipal government of the PSOE and the PP since it entered the municipal government initiated the necessary studies to adapt to the claims raised since 2006 such an association of consumers, whose demands have been backed now by the courts. "
So far, the citizen who consume water flow had to pay each and every part of global supply at the price of the last step or stage reached, the more expensive, without taking into account the most economical.
For example, if a consumer before spending 19 m3 each paid to 0.918083 euros, will now pay the first 14 euro to 0.597809 and 0.918083 remaining 5 euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca