"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"JennyC" wrote in message
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"Stan The Man" wrote
The Isle of Wight provides an interesting test area. When they first
introduced compulsory meeting, water consumption per household dropped
by around 10% on average - but this figure has gone down every year
since so that today, average consumption is only approx 1% less than it
was before metering was imposed.

That could mean that we have more money and are prepared to spend it on
water; or it could mean that the metered water bills were not as scary
as folk had feared; or it could mean that everyone is now accustomed to
using less water.

Maybe it's too cheap?
.........households pay 1.2 pence per cubic meter (Telegraph June 2006)

http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/aptrix/ofwat...ndyoumarch2000
says:

Watering a garden: Assuming a hosepipe for one hour uses approximately
540 litres of water: 70p


Those figures do not work. A cu metre of water = 1000 litres.
At 1.2p/cu m, 540 litres would cost 6.48p
Steve

I know. info from two different sites........just making sure you were not
napping after Sunday lunch :~)
Jenny