Of Jumpam’s 156,000 clients, 48,000 are in arrears.
To enable the municipal government to pay for planned drain pipe repairs this year, Jumapam General Manager Rigoberto Félix Díaz said it is necessary for the water department to be more aggressive in collecting delinquent accounts.
During 2015 Jumapam will apply the strict letter of the law to those who have not paid their water bill, including economic embargos against those who have not paid for many years. The application of the law, said Félix Díaz, is to force people to pay or negotiate.
With respect to clandestine users of municipal water, the law will also be applied in that those discovered stealing water will be charged with theft.
Of Jumpam´s 156,000 clients, 48,000 are in arrears. Of those 48,000, 10,000 are considered severely delinquent having not paid for years.
The Jumapam General Manager justified applying the law saying water users who pay on time end up also paying for the consequences of those who do not pay.
In an ongoing door to door census to determine who are Jumapam clients, of the 20 percent of users personnel has visited they discovered 10 percent are obtaining water service without an installed meter or contract. As well, some clients registered as residential are in fact businesses.
The census is taking place in both urban and rural areas and, said the General Manager, is expected to terminate not later than February 15 this year. (from Noroeste)
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