The leader of the Cabildo Abierto demanded that the state company exonerate the payment of the service to the users of Montevideo and the metropolitan area.
The senator and leader of Town meeting (AC), Guido Manini Riosclaimed this Tuesday in the session of the Senate that SBI should not charge the rate to its customers in Montevideo and the metropolitan area “as long as the water is not potable”. At these words, the senator of the National Party (PN), sebastian da silvaexpressed his annoyance on a personal level with the proposal made by the lobbyist.
“The victims of this whole situation are undoubtedly the users who have not been receiving drinking water for a long time”slipped Manini Ríos, who understands that the OSE is breaching part of its contract that requires it to provide drinking water to the population, so the exemption from payment would be an act of “strict justice”.
Da Silva indicated that “this is not the time” to make this type of statementbecause the government is acting “according to the extraordinary circumstances that overwhelmed us all.” “Here the ones that rule are the clouds and the water”said the white legislator.
The nationalist senator maintained that the Water Emergency Fundwhich will be voted tomorrow as “serious and urgent” in the Senate and later in Deputies, “is a legal instrument that allows the State to use exceptional discretion to attend to the emergency.”
Manini Ríos shot at the government’s lack of vision in water matters
Manini Ríos went further and pointed against the government, and the past administrations of the broad frontfor his “lack of high beams” to have avoided the current water emergency through OSE infrastructure works, such as the Casupá dam.
In turn, he assured that the work that is being carried out now to bring water from the San José river to the Santa Lucia River It should have been completed at least “six months” ago. “This whole episode shows the lack of vision of the rulers in the long term,” she said.
Source: Ambito
