MK (Yahadut Hatorah) is working to reduce the cost of water. He was addressing a session of the Knesset Interior Committee which was scheduled to deal with his bill intended to lower the cost of water. He explains in recent years; private homes have been subsidizing the cost of water for farmers and he feels “no one should be subsidizing the cost of water. It is an essential product for our existence and it is the state’s responsibility”.
The bill received its final approval and the cost of water will be reduced as Maklev intended. He feels as citizens should be paying the same for water, the same must be trues for farmers and it is not acceptable that a farmer in the north pays one price while a southern area farmer pays another. “It is not a logical system, and as a result, we have lost many farmers due to the high-water costs. We must view the farmers as an invaluable national asset”.
Maklev’s bill will also result in a lowering of costs of water for farmers too, with him explaining by law, the money levied by private water companies is now transferred to the treasury. The levy structure creates distortions and inefficiencies in consumption and management of water.
“In order to correct this prices must be lowered significantly.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
Why is he not working on reducing terror attacks
To #1: because then, some people will clamor “why isn’t he working on lowering the cost of living (water, electricity, etc.)?” There are several govt. agencies charged with reducing terror attacks. None at all that are tasked with making life more affordable.
Life goes on. We are in a constant state of war and terrorist attacks. We must work on improving everything, starting with ourselves.
OK 84298429; So let’s have all 120 Knesset members do nothing else but “reduce terror attacks”. What silly advice, gov’t should not function because of terror attacks? It’s the job of the security cabinet to “reduce terror attacks”, with Hashem’s help.