The director of the Decentralized Sanitary Works Entity (EDOS) Jorge Mendieta held a teleconference meeting with the administrator of the National Entity for Water Works and Sanitation (ENOHSA) Enrique Cresto and technicians from the agency.
Among the highlights of the virtual meeting, Mendieta confirmed that ENOHSA gave the green light to the project prepared by the Obras Sanitarias team to install 10,000 water meters in Concordia.
“We are working on micro-metering policies aimed at taking care of water, preserving the resource, and deepening the measures we have been implementing so that the collection responds to criteria of balance and solidarity, optimizing the calculation and collection methodology currently in force,” argued Mendieta.
“Today we were confirmed by ENOHSA that they approved a project we submitted last year to manage the installation of 10,000 meters in our city, an issue that together with Mayor Alfredo Francolini we had been working on from the EDOS in coordination with Cresto and his team,” the official announced.
“In 2020 we made a lot of progress, reaching 10,000 metered accounts, but the survey we conducted counts more than 35,000 connections that are not metered and where a high degree of delinquency and non-compliance is recorded. Advancing this year with 10,000 more meters is a step forward in a long-term program that has as its main objective the establishment of micro-metering throughout the city,” detailed Mendieta.
“The important thing is to understand that in all this there is no tax collection or sanctioning purpose. What is intended is to raise awareness about water care, eradicating habits of waste or misuse of water, which are so common and cause so many problems. Otherwise, even if we have a new plant and the old plant fully operational, the problems of water shortages in some sectors will persist. The only way to put an end to this situation is micro-metering and the rational use of water throughout the city,” concluded the head of the EDOS.
Among the highlights of the virtual meeting, Mendieta confirmed that ENOHSA gave the green light to the project prepared by the Obras Sanitarias team to install 10,000 water meters in Concordia.
“We are working on micro-metering policies aimed at taking care of water, preserving the resource, and deepening the measures we have been implementing so that the collection responds to criteria of balance and solidarity, optimizing the calculation and collection methodology currently in force,” argued Mendieta.
“Today we were confirmed by ENOHSA that they approved a project we submitted last year to manage the installation of 10,000 meters in our city, an issue that together with Mayor Alfredo Francolini we had been working on from the EDOS in coordination with Cresto and his team,” the official announced.
“In 2020 we made a lot of progress, reaching 10,000 metered accounts, but the survey we conducted counts more than 35,000 connections that are not metered and where a high degree of delinquency and non-compliance is recorded. Advancing this year with 10,000 more meters is a step forward in a long-term program that has as its main objective the establishment of micro-metering throughout the city,” detailed Mendieta.
“The important thing is to understand that in all this there is no tax collection or sanctioning purpose. What is intended is to raise awareness about water care, eradicating habits of waste or misuse of water, which are so common and cause so many problems. Otherwise, even if we have a new plant and the old plant fully operational, the problems of water shortages in some sectors will persist. The only way to put an end to this situation is micro-metering and the rational use of water throughout the city,” concluded the head of the EDOS.