Guadalajara residents receiving contaminated water will get an 80% discount on their bills

Guadalajara households are eligible for an 80% discount connected their h2o bills erstwhile they’re verified arsenic having been affected by the contaminated h2o occupation plaguing the authorities capital.

The discount, approved Monday by the Jalisco authorities Congress, volition use until December 15  to astir 600 neighborhoods and arsenic galore arsenic 750,000 beneficiaries supplied by the Intermunicipal System of Potable Water and Sewerage Services (SIAPA).

Congress volition consult with the authorities Human Rights Commission to find which neighborhoods person been affected, according to the president of the Finance Commission, Congresswoman Gabriela Cárdenas Rodríguez. 

The Human Rights Commission volition study the neighborhoods from which it has received complaints during 2026, with areas being added to the database passim the twelvemonth upon their petition and with the support of the SIAPA governing board. 

The determination came aft Guadalajara Morena enactment Councilman José María Martínez delivered a national petition to the section Congress connected July 13, signed by 31,508 radical and titled “If determination is nary cleanable water, nary payment.” The measurement aimed to enactment families who person not been provided with the h2o prime and hygiene standards they are entitled to by law.

The discount has been acceptable astatine 80% due to the fact that the remaining 20% of the idiosyncratic interest to SIAPA contributes to the cognition of non-water services, specified arsenic drainage, sewage and different sanitary infrastructure.

To person the discount, users indispensable conscionable the pursuing conditions:

• Live successful a vicinity included successful the database of affected areas.
• Have been receiving poor-quality oregon cloudy water.
• Have a monthly depletion of up to 25 cubic meters.
• Be a residential oregon tiny concern user.
• Not beryllium to the concern assemblage oregon beryllium a ample consumer.

During the aforesaid session, the Finance Committee approved different inaugural to destruct 100% of the precocious fees generated by outstanding h2o bills. 

Also, Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro has outlined an concern of 100 cardinal pesos (US $5.7 million) for the usage of portable h2o attraction plants, which volition rotate crossed antithetic areas of the metropolis to supply cleanable drinking h2o to affected neighborhoods.

With reports from La Jornada, N+ Noticias and Eje Central