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The head of Aysam, Humberto Mingorance, explained what billing will be like after the implementation of the new water meters.
“The rest of the services, electricity and gas, are charged precisely, that is, there is a base rate to maintain operating costs and networks and then the consumption that each one has is charged, per public meter in gas or per kilowatt in electricity. With water it will be the same, There will be a fixed base amount to maintain the networks and purification plants; and consumption and excesses will be paid differently“Mingorance explained in you have no face from Nihuil radio.
Therefore, in the future, what Mendoza residents consume will be measured by consumption ranges that will each have an assigned value. That is to say, if someone exceeds this consumption, they will pay more for the service.
“What is consumed in a range will have a value at a certain volume. We are doing a cost analysis to also define that volume, which will have an excess value, whoever exceeds that value will pay more per cubic meter for being excessive. It is not going to be directly and linear, let’s say, liter by liter, that if one consumes 10 liters, he pays $10, if he consumes 1,000 liters he pays $1,000 pesos, it is not going to be like that. He who consumes 1,000 liters is going to pay perhaps $3,000 to adjust his consumption. What we are pursuing with this is obviously not a collection issue, but is to keep the networks in better conditions,” explained the head of Aysam.
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How much water should each Mendoza citizen consume?
According to Mingorance, the future water bill, When you take what the meters show, you will count the consumption in cubic meters.but the objective is to refine the measurement in such a way that rates can even be established per liters consumed per person in Mendoza.
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The 19,500 meters will be completed in the coming months and for 6 months users will continue paying the current values, but the true consumption will be informed on the bill. In the future, it will be paid with values per range of water consumption; if there are excesses, higher prices will be paid.
“I want this data to be transformed into liters of water per day per inhabitant. How many liters of water per inhabitant does a consumer in an arid and desert area like Mendoza require? which is not the same as that of a person who lives in a humid and cold area, who consumes much less water. We want to know how much you consume for human consumption and also for your personal cleaning, and how much for cleaning your home. There is a minimum or maximum that we are adjusting with the Ministry of Health, I am waiting for a report that they will give me soon, to be able to define that variable, and that is going to be the limit,” he said.
Mingorance’s obsession and the concern that they share in the Government aim to reduce the number of liters of water that each Mendoza citizen consumes because they know that the population is increasing and the service, which is scarce today, will be even more so in the future. far away.
“We aim to lower consumption, because as the population increases we will not have more water to give it, we will have the same amount of water or maybe less. We have to foresee all actions 10, 20 or 30 years from now, for when that population grows and water decreases in volume. Given this lack of water resources that we are surely going to have due to the issue of climate change, we have to optimize it by measuring consumption.”
The official clarified that the installation of the meters and the change in household metering are part of a first stage that will be complemented by a second instance, which will be macro-metering: which involves measuring how much water Aysam receives from the General Department of Irrigation, how much water available for the Aysam networks to supply to the neighbors and how much each neighbor consumes. “We are going to have macro and micro measurement to have exactly all the data at hand,” he projected.
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