In order to provide a harmonized water service to all users in the Metropolis, it will be proposed to the metropolitan elected representatives, at an upcoming council meeting, to decide on the choice of the Régie Eau d’Azur to ensure the continuity of the public drinking water service for the seven municipalities located on the right bank of the Var, at the expiration of the various public service delegation contracts.
For Christian Estrosi, President of the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis, “the public drinking water service will be ensured, from January 1, 2020, and throughout the entire territory, by the Metropolitan Régie Eau d’Azur. From the current 42 municipalities served, we will increase to 49. This will allow us to coherently demonstrate all the advantages that this mode of management brings us: facilitated governance, ambitious investments serving the municipalities and, of course, the clients of the public water service. Competitive and harmonized pricing. Not to mention the strengthening of our intervention capacities in facing climate uncertainties. Today, we have everything to gain by standardizing our organization.”
Created by the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis in 2013, the E.P.I.C. Eau d’Azur was entrusted by the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis with the drinking water service of Nice in February 2015. Its scope now extends to 42 municipalities, notably covering the entire metropolitan territory on the left bank of the Var, from Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage to Cap d’Ail.
The public service delegation contracts for 7 municipalities on the right bank of the Var: Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Vence, Carros, Gilette, Bonson, and Le Broc, are set to expire at the end of 2019.
