Last year the cost of water has recorded an average increase of 5,4% compared to 2007, with double-digit increases 15 city: we start from Campania (+34.3% Salerno) to get in Emilia Romagna (+21.4% Parma) through Basilicata (+16.1% Potenza and Matera), Veneto (++16.3% Padua), Lombardy (+15.9 and Lodi, +13.4% Cremona), Piedmont (+14.5% Verbania), Walking (+14.4% Urbino) and Friuli (+12.1% Gorizia). The survey comes from Cittadinanzattiva, it also notes that according to Istat data, from January 2000 in July 2009 the increase was the 47%.
According to Active Citizenship, North is to invest more in the water sector and the rates are lower on average, as well as the dispersion. In the South, but do not invest, the network is a sieve, and even if the drinking water is better than the north, the constant interruptions of service in many cases do not favor the consumption of tap water.
From the Metro 16 October 2009
