This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at El agua es 8,4% más cara que el año anterior en España
The water is 8.4% more expensive than the previous year at Spain
28/06/2011
June 28, 2011
According to data from the National Institute of statistics'survey on supply and sanitation of the water', the unit value of water in Spain (ratio between the amount paid for the supply of water over the quotas of sewerage, purification and canons of sanitation or discharge, and the volume of water recorded and distributed to users) stood at 1.42 EUR per cubic metre in 2009which led to an increase of 8.4% compared to 1,31 EUR in the previous year.
The unit value of the water supply reached the 0.88 euros per cubic meter, while sanitation (sewerage, purification and canons of sanitation and disposal) was 0.54 euros per cubic meter.
Autonomous communities, the higher values were Illes Balears (2,00 euro per cubic meter), Canary Islands (1.90) and region of Murcia (1.84).
By contrast, La Rioja, Galicia (0.93 euros per cubic meter in both communities) and Castilla y León (1.07) presented the lowest water denominations.
