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Increase will be up 2% from September. Decree of the Governor Sergio Cabral regulates transfer of charge to the consumer charged providers of sanitation services. Money goes to fund environmental
River - The water bill will undergo an adjustment of up to 2% from next month. Decree signed by Governor Sergio Cabral and published yesterday in the 'Daily Journal' regulates the transfer of charging for water use by providers of sanitation services to the consumer. The proceeds will make up the State Fund for Water Resources (FUNDRHI), whose goal is to preserve the nine watersheds in the state.
Consumers who pay social tariff are free of charge. The measure will cause the volume of assets in the fund go from R$ 8 million to R$ 30 million a year. The transfer should be highlighted in the bills sent to consumers by companies - among them, the State Water.
Until last year, the state law that forbade the collection was passed on to consumers. Message from the state government sent in May 2008 to the Legislative Assembly amended the original law of 2003, and allowed the costs are contained in the account sent to consumers - the limit of up to 2% of the amount charged by the original provider.
With this, who pays R$ 100 a month for water consumption will pay for R$ 102 per month, pays R$ 30 is going to afford R$ 30.60 - the difference will make up the fund.
To the President of the State Institute of the Environment (INEA), Luiz Firmino Martins Pereira, the transfer of charge to the consumer may result in medium term, in reducing costs. "The more polluted the river, more chemicals, treatments and technologies are needed to make drinking water," says the chairman of Inea. "With the investments that are made with the FUNDRHI, the level of pollution will reduce spending and to clean the water, too."
Also according to Martins Pereira, the nine river basins of the state have autonomous management committees that define how to apply the money. For the current legislation, 70% of the fund's resources should be invested in basic sanitation until the region has 80% of treated sewage. Today, in addition FUNDRHI, Rio has the Special Fund Environmental Control (Fecam) for investments in the environment. In this case, however, only the oil royalties fund the fund - 5% of the total received by the River
Source: The Day Online
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