"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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"Stan The Man" wrote in message

Fortunately, the advance of water metering presents the water
compnaies
with a dichotomy. If we are brainwashed into using less water, the
water industry gets less revenue from metered properties. Fokestone
&
Dover water company, which lifted its hosepipe ban this month, has a
vested interest in doing so because it announced earlier this year
that
all its customers would be compulsorily metered.

I'm seeking clarification here. Aren't water metres (and thus payment
for water) a standard thing in all city locations or are they just
being introduced across the UK?

Domestic water used always to be paid for as a fixed annual fee related to
the value of your property. This is being replaced by water meters where
you pay for the amount of water you actually use. Obviously the latter is a
firer system and ought to be widely used, but some of the water companies
comprehensively buggered the process by using the installation of meters to
hike the prices. Thus my Father who has an expensive house because of the
sea view but with a small garden which he does not water and a preference
for showers over baths found he was paying significantly more for water with
a meter than he was for a water rate even though his rates were high and his
water usage is low. I presume Essex water has no feet left to shoot itself
in :-(

Gill M