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Unbilled water costs Portuguese operators ¢æ167m
A third of the water distributed in Portugal is not billed, a report issued last week by the national water regulator ERSAR revealed. ERSAR described as ¡°clearly unsatisfactory¡± the fact that 300 million m©ø out of 850 million m©ø of water distributed in mainland Portugal last year was not billed, costing operators ¢æ167 million.
ERSAR found wide regional disparities in non-billing rates, from 10% for Lisbon¡¯s operator EPAL to over 70% in other municipalities, particularly northern and rural ones. Causes include leakage, inefficient metering and not charging for municipal water use in parks, street-cleaning and firefighting.
ERSAR president Jaime Melo Baptista called for an integrated approach to tackling the problem with more investment to improve systems¡¯ efficiency and maintenance.
In a related development, environment minister Jorge Moreira said this week that, while not excluding any future option, ¡°no privatisation plans for the water sector are in the offing or under consideration¡±.
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