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The water bill will be cheaper next year thanks to increased consumption of the Repsol refinery, according to the mayor announced Friday, Pilar Barreiro, after the meeting of the Governing Board year.

Such reduction shall be applied in priority to the common sections of domestic consumption to benefit most families and rates necessary to avoid penalizing consumption in the retail, hospitality and small and medium empres to be changed.

The mayor explained that the technical estimate over 2 million increase in income, the consumption of new facilities provide Repsol steadily each year.

This increase reduces the fixed costs that users are divided in their bills.

Barreiro has been reported that the municipal government has instructed the technicians and the concessionaire to the windfalls of 2013, 2.5 million euros, help to pay part of the investments carried out by the benefits Hidrogea and 2014 compute and reduction of the receipt next year.

Although the overall increase in benefits is at about 6% rebate on the receipt will be known when closed set the new rate structure that the government has commissioned.

Technicians must work in a reorganization of the best rates to fit the profile of consumers and to work to improve social tariffs, aimed at families with economic difficulties, pensioners and unemployed.

The Government's intention is that the lowered benefit the greatest number of families, trade, hotels and SMEs.

To achieve this, rebates will be discussed in the sections most commonly consumed in domestic rates and the rates of small and medium enterprises will be redefined so that their regular consumption are located in cheaper sections.

This is to contribute to help small businesses and help create jobs.

These proposals, which will be exhibited next Monday at the meeting of the monitoring committee created to analyze the municipal water management, made ​​possible after studying the consumption of Repsol's new plant inaugurated in 2012.

The study was carried out with sufficient perspective because consumption during the launch and the months in which adjustments are made are fluctuating.

Technicians believe that the analysis of the first half of this year and experience the consumption of 2013 and allow to define more precisely the stable consumption of the plant.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena