Consumers and thieves: how to deal with additional cubic meters of water in payments

CHISINAU, July 29 – Sputnik, Nikolay Kostyrkin. The problem of extra cubic meters in the bills for the payment of water is familiar to every Moldovan resident. On the question of whether there is an opportunity to fight such arbitrariness and where is the real injustice, the spokesman of the municipal economy of Chisinau Victor Gureu told the Sputnik correspondent: "According to the law on consumer protection, that they have not spent, have the right to ask the court.There is a condition.To the law be on your side, "l & # 39; additive "to the volume of water in the recipes must be equal to or greater than the total volume of water you used," explained Mr. Gureau

.The apartments take temporary residents, but do not Therefore, the owners of the living space avoid paying the cost of all the water flowing from the taps of their apartment.

"There is a mechanism for the temporary registration of It is practiced in many countries and we must strive for a person to pay in ur the amount of water that he has exhausted. As a result, all the technical losses, whether they have occurred on the backbone or inside the house, still affect the amount of the payment, "said Gureu.

It is certain that the Calculation of the cost of drinking water services should be calculated not from the number of square meters of housing, as is currently the case, but according to the volumes of water actually used. this, it is necessary to make changes to the legislation.