Alenquer with the most expensive water in the Lisbon district
Trofa, is the water district of Porto, which charges the most for water, in contrast to Lajes das Flores, with the Azores, according to DECO’s concept invoice today, which warns of the discrepancies in the prices of Portuguese municipalities 308.
Among the five most expensive municipalities in the country are Trofa (503.61 euros/year paid by consumers per year of 120 meters/cubic of water), Santo Tirso (490.77 euros/480, 21 euros/year) – the three in the district do Porto -, Celorico de Basto (447.13 euros/year), in the district of Braga, and Gondomar (443.99 euros/year), also in the district of Porto.
The inhabitants who pay the cheapest water bill are those of Lajes das Flores (9.36 euros/year), Santa Cruz das Flores (14 euros/year), Corvo (26.4 euros/year) – all in the region Autonomous Region of the Azores -, and São Vicente (69.5 euros/year) and Porto Moniz (72.6 euros/year), in the autonomous region of Madeira.
The bill for water from recent urban waters indexed as a source of water supply, sanitation and solid waste, water from last urban waters (consumption function).
In the case of the first three municipalities, the cheapest water bill, with the corresponding sanitary services, do not charge municipal and MSW tariffs.
By district capitals, in ascending order of invoice value, Aveiro leads (379.26 euros/year), followed by Beja (370.44 euros/year), Portalegre (356.88 euros/year), Vila Real (337 ) ,48 euros/year), Viana do Castelo (329.89 euros/year), Leiria (328.01 euros/year), Guarda (323.87 euros/year), Faro (322.26 euros/year), Castelo Branco (317.03 euros/year), Viseu (297 euros/year), Bragança (284.16 euros/year), Setúbal (283.84 euros/year), Coimbra (273.76 euros/year), Porto (269.01 euros/year), Lisbon (259.51 euros/year), Santarém (257.92 euros/year), Braga (256.30 euros/year) and Évora (214 euros/year).
In the autonomous regions, in Ponta Delgada (Azores), each family pays 263.41 euros of water bill per year, while in Funchal (Madeira) it is 160.8 euros.
The most expensive water, in the district of Lisbon, is paid in the municipality of Alenquer (410.94 euros/year) and the cheapest is in the capital (259.51 euros/year).
Alenquer charges 182.94 euros per year, just for the supply of 120 m3 of water. If we do the math on the total bill, we add sanitation, at the end of the year, an additional 171.67 euros is added. And, when we add urban solid waste, the charge for which is 56.34 euros of water, that is, a total of water of more than 400 euros, is a total billing.
In the district of Porto, Trofa is where you pay more (503.61 euros/year) and Felgueiras (228.24 euros/year) where you pay less.
In a statement released today, prices between the Consumer Protection Association 400 euros alerted the Association to the municipalities of 400 euros, which arrive at the disc.
“There are discrepancies in the specific resources, with a more extreme difference between urban supply services and the bills included in the water supply bills of the municipalities of the country’s municipalities”, warns DECO, adding that it is a “value very significant”.
This consumer protection department exemplifies the organizational differences between Trofa, in the Porto district, and Vila Nova de Foz Coa, in the Guarda district, where 503 euros are paid for 120 cubic meters per year and 88.20 euros, respectively. euros for the same amount of water consumed.
A family or four people, in three areas of the country and with many different euros in a district of Vila do Conde, in the district of Almodóvar, in the district of Almodóvar, in the district of Almodóvar, in the district of Almodóvar, in the district of Almodóvar, in the Almodovar district. de Beja, 53.80 euros in Penedono, in the district of Viseu, 46.50 euros in Terras de Bouro, in the district of Braga.
Sanitation (treatment of waste water) also presents, for 120 cubic meters, an increased range of changes of 173 euros, between Covilhã (185.30 euros/year) and Vila de Rei (12.24 euros/year), both from the Castelo Branco district.
DECO also recalls that municipalities still do not charge a sanitation fee, “which, once again, denounces little divergence, which has not resulted in equitable treatment of citizens”.
Regarding the tariff for urban solid waste, the water defense association is suitable for the consumer, “the logical function of DECO consumption has come to criticism and is expected to be changed by 2026”.