Good news for households in Nice. As of January 1st, 2013, the price per cubic meter of drinking water (excluding subscription, pollution fee, and sanitation) will decrease by 10 cents.
This measure results from the desire to offer users a quality of service at an equivalent price for everyone and as low as possible by benefiting from a new contractual revision obtained after just 4 years since the last amendment in December 2008.
This significant reduction is achieved half by the delegatee’s efforts on its operating costs (nearly €1.6 million in savings per year) and half by the resumption of part of the investments that will be directly carried out by the Metropolis;
It occurs after the decreases of €1.11/m³ for Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and €0.91/m³ for the 9 municipalities: Aspremont, Castagniers, Colomars, Falicon, La Roquette-sur-Var, Levens, Saint-Blaise, Saint-Martin-du-Var, and Tourrette-Levens (thanks to the new DSP “10 communes,” which we awarded last December).
The water contract for the City of Nice will therefore expire on February 3, 2015 (Metropolitan Council deliberation on September 21st last year).
Christian Estrosi has requested the Metropolitan services to perform a comparative analysis of the management modes of the service starting from 2015, in order to study the possibility of launching a new DSP procedure or preparing for direct management of the Nice contract. This decision, which is not yet made, will be taken in the first quarter of 2013.
