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Mora group seeks recall of water bills

THE citizens' group Save CDO Now Movement yesterday called on the city's business groups to demand the recall the latest water bill consumers in the city have received. Businessman Tito Mora said there have been complaints about a sharp rise in the billings from the Cagayan de Oro Water District (COWD). Mora appealed to the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Oro Chamber), Misamis Oriental Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Philexport, Promote CDO and similar groups to demand that COWD recall the latest water bill. A group of businessmen also complained to this paper about the significant increase in their water bills. Some said the increase was 100 percent. Mora, however, complained of a "four-fold increase." "No amount of imagination or explanation can justify a four-fold increase. And we would like to add that a greater portion of the consumer's woes are traceable to the ineptitude of city governance who is empowered by law under the Local Government Code to control the prices of basic commodities in this time of calamity which up to now, our city is experiencing. We also call on all consumers to be vigilant. We do not have to pay for injustice," he said. COWD...

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