«Good news for Calabria. Arrical and Sorical, the implementing body, were awarded 32.8 million euros of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan for the efficiency of water distribution networks”. Thus Roberto Occhiuto, president of the Calabria Region.
«Just today – the governor says – the decree of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport was issued which assigns the Pnrr resources for the third time window.
Our Region, as you will remember, was excluded from the first two windows of the tenders and in 2021 it had lost over 100 million euros because the former Calabria Water Authority had presented a project deemed ineligible. This time, however, it went differently: the Arrical reform, with Sorical as the implementing body, allowed Calabria to participate in the new MIT tender and to enter among the beneficiaries of European investments”.
Occhiuto explains that «the project financed by Pnrr funds concerns the efficiency of the water distribution networks of the third-largest municipalities of the Region (6-10 thousand inhabitants). They will be 21 cities affected – Roccella Ionica, Polistena, Cittanova, Casali del Manco, Melito Porto Salvo, Bagnara Calabra, Belvedere Marittimo, Petilia Policastro, Bovalino, Trebisacce, Fuscaldo, Rizziconi, Cariati, Caulonia, Gioiosa Ionica, Spezzano Terme, Praia a Mare, Marina di Gioiosa Ionica, Cinquefrondi, Strongoli, San Lucido – inhabited by approximately 164 thousand Calabrians. We are really satisfied with the result achieved.”
