“Twenty million to Calabria for purification”

The president: “Resources arrived thanks to our resources”

REGGIO CALABRIA – “They come from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan over 20 million for purification interventions in Calabria. In recent days, a program agreement was signed between the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (Mase), the Calabria Region and the Calabria Waste and Water Resources Authority (ArriCal)”. Thus the president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, who adds: “The resources that the Region will benefit from will be made available for interventions which will concern, among other things, the efficiency of the purification plants, their compliance, the strengthening of purification platforms, the creation of collection networks and the modernization of sewerage networks through the use and recourse to technological innovation”. “The approved program agreement – ​​he highlights – also provides for the implementation of the projects admitted to financing with regards to the ‘Green revolution and ecological transition’ and ‘Protection of the territory and water resources’ components”.

“This was made possible – recalls Occhiuto – thanks to the establishment, strongly supported by my regional government, of the Calabria Waste and Water Resources Authority (ArriCal) and to the identification/assignment of the integrated water service to the single manager for the entire Region, Sorical, in 2023: enabling and necessary conditions to be able to participate in the Pnrr tenders for the integrated water service”. “Since my inauguration, structural initiatives have been added to the emergency activities for the summer seasons activated by the Environment and Land Protection department to finally start the Calabria Region – he concludes – towards normality and to fill the infrastructural and governance gap of the integrated water service that we had compared to other realities”.