More dear water for Italian families. The municipal rates And they go up the bills. But not a Milanwhich is confirmed in the 2024 The capital with water at the lowest price. It reveals the XX Integrated Water Service Reportedited byObservatory prices and citizenship rateswidespread in view of the World Water Day that the March 22nd.
According to theinvestigationbased on one family consisting of 3 peopledad, mom and only one son, with annual consumption of 182 cubic metersIn the 2024 there shopping per family it was of 500 euros. Almost 20 euros more Compared to 481 euros spent in 2023. But if the comparison is made with the 2019 – that is before the pandemic crisis – the expense for thewaterfall has climbed the 23%. “For those who have access to the social water bonus, belonging to a family unit of three people and ISEE threshold up to 9,530 euros, the annual savings stands at 110 euros”says the Relationship.
There region in which the lower average expense is the Molise (234 euros), given unchanged compared to the previous year. On the contrary, the region with the higher expense It is the Tuscany (748 euros), where with respect to the 2023 there is a average increase of 2.3%. The most substantial increase is interested in theEmilia Romagna (+8.8%) and theAbruzzo (+8.5%). Frosinone remains at the top of the ranking of more expensive provinceswith one annual average expenditure of 917 euros (+5.7%), While Milan also conquers in 2024 the palm of cheaper capitalwith 185 euros.
Among the provincial capitalsincreases to Two percentage figures For Salerno (+16.1%), Novara and Verbania (+12.9%), Rovigo (+11.1%). TO Latin there is a decrease of 37%.
Based on Istat datareports theObservatoryIn the 2023 the86.4% (+0.4% compared to the previous year) from the Families fought declares itself Very (21.5%) or quite satisfied (64.9%) of water serviceagainst a 13.6% little or not at all.
In the same year, the8.9% complained irregularity in disbursementpercentage that rises to 15.8% in South regions and al 24.3% in Islands.
There irregular supply of the servicein addition to Access problemsaffects negatively In many cases also on Citizens’ trusted levels towards thetap water. On average, One in 4 family And little or not satisfied from the tap water qualitywith situations of greater criticality in the South and especially in Islandswhere the 53.4% of them He declares that he does not trust Berlain the face of one national average of 28.8%Anyway tall.
This explains in part why the Italian are the First consumers of bottled water in Europe (with an annual average of 208 liters per capita) And Seconds in the world after Mexico (which holds an annual media per capita of 244 liters).