PCA DAS AURAS
Maputo, 8 Aug (AIM) – The Mozambican Authority for Water and Sanitation (AURAS) launched on Wednesday, in Maputo, a consultancy for drawing up an instrument that will bring incentives and sanctions applicable to the public water suppliers and sanitation services.
The project, funded by the World Bank, is budgeted at around 150,000 dollars.
The instrument may regulate the performance of the country’s publicly owned Water Supply Investment and Assets Fund (FIPAG), which is frequently criticized for demanding controversial payments from its clients. The price of water is said to be always high and does not correspond to the real quantity of water consumed per month by the clients.
FIPAG is also criticized for providing dirty water to its clients, who are forced to accept it since the authorities do nothing to improve FIPAG’s permanence.
According to the chairperson of the AURAS board of directors, Suzana Loforte, the instrument aims at ensuring the efficiency, sustainability and quality of water supply and sanitation services.
“It also aims at balancing the interests of service providers and consumers, as well as improving the quality of contracts between the two parties”, she said.
“The regulation will ensure that private investment complements government actions”, Loforte added.
(AIM)
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