The Ministry of Public Works approved the possibility that in buildings with global meters water service concessionaires charge users individually under the traditional unmetered regime and a measured variable charge is paid to the consortium.
This was done through resolution 641/2023 published today in the Official bulletinwhere a new guide was also provided with criteria for home healthcare facilities.
In the case of the existing buildingsvarious concessionaires, including AySA, have in recent years exempt for five years from charging the drinking water connection charge to those users and consortia that retrofit their internal facilities to enter the measured regime.
Subsequently, through various studies and surveys, the Water and Sanitation Regulatory Entity (ERAS) concluded that the adaptation of the facilities is technically and economically complex.
For the new buildingssome jurisdictions, such as the city of Buenos Aires, established in their building codes that new constructions must have facilities suitable for individual measurement.
Change in the water meter billing modality: to whom it applies
Today’s resolution establishes Modifications to metered billing in those properties that have consumption measurement against requests in public hearings.
Users had demanded the possibility of continuing with the individual billing in those buildings that have a global consumption meteras stated in the recitals.
The new scheme will allow users to have a individual charge calculated according to the criteria and parameters of the unmetered regime.
Meanwhile, a complementary measured variable chargeor to the consortium, in the event that the consumption recorded by the global meter exceeds the sum of the equivalent consumption of the individual bills of the building.
That is to say, You can opt for individual or unified billing in buildings that have a single meter.
This new modality will be “voluntary, optional and reversible” and what you are looking for is a “improvement for users of the service,” indicates the resolution.
Water rates: how the modification will be implemented
On the other hand, the area approved today a guide for the execution of home sanitary installations and comparable to domestic ones, in which calculation methodologies, tables and measures are incorporated for the rational and efficient use of water, aiming to set general standards.
Among the various points of the guide, all thes technical aspects that must be considered in the facilities so that they are prepared for individual measurement, with data and calculation examples for the adequate sizing of components and measurement equipment as well as their correct location.
A goal of the new guide is to be applicable to all jurisdictionsencouraging individual measurement to be incorporated in new constructions throughout the country.
Source: Ambito
