This March 28, residents of Frosinone, in Lazio, a central region of Italy, once again suffered a sharp drop in tap water pressure. At issue this time, the repairs carried out by Acea, a mixed operator 23.3% owned by Suez, which took over the municipal management in 2003. Because this rural municipality has one of the highest loss rates in all of Italy: 63% of drinking water injected into the system in 2023, as much as the most failing regional network in Basilicata. For twenty years, Acea has started to plug the leaks which reached 75% in 2015, but it is still far from the European level (25%), which it almost managed to do in Rome. The reasons lie in countless illegal connections, namely water theft, as well as tariffs that are too low to cover the cost of the necessary investments. “
The increase in costs has not been reflected in tariffs, as the national regulator has not approved…
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