Toxic tap water? Southeast Hungary still lacks safe drinking water despite billions in EU funds
The opposition Democratic Coalition is demanding clean drinking water for the regions around the towns of Hódmezővásárhely and Makó in southeast Hungary, where abnormally high levels of boron and arsenic have been detected, party leader Klára Dobrev said on Saturday.
Dobrev told a press conference in Kiszombor in Csongrád-Csanád county that the government had been unable to solve the problem “for years, despite the fact that just this region has received HUF 6 billion [EUR 15 million] in EU funding for water purification.”
DK will have drinking water in the region examined, “because locals have a right to know its quality,” and will send written questions to Constitutional Court head Peter Polt on the “disappearance” of the HUF 6 billion funding, she said.
County lawmaker Tamás Mucsi, an MP candidate for the party, said he had proposed to place water machines in schools and kindergartens, “but the Fidesz majority assembly voted against the motion.”
“Leftist values mean that we care for those ignored by Fidesz,” Mucsi said.