Severn Trent water meters.

Thehooperman

Thehooperman

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Just had a letter from Severn Trent to say they're installing a water meter on my boundary claiming this will help them track and detect leaks much faster.

They state that this won't change how I pay my water bill but I'm just wondering how long before they force metering on everyone once they've got a certain quantity of meters working?
 
Lucy

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We've had one for about 2 years. I wondered if they thought there was a leak on our supply as the neighbours use an inordinate amount of water in their garden.
 
Mudgie

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Thehooperman said:
Just had a letter from Severn Trent to say they're installing a water meter on my boundary claiming this will help them track and detect leaks much faster.

They state that this won't change how I pay my water bill but I'm just wondering how long before they force metering on everyone once they've got a certain quantity of meters working?
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If there's a leak they'd be selling you more water so that can't be the reason.
 
littleme

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Lucy said:
We've had one for about 2 years. I wondered if they thought there was a leak on our supply as the neighbours use an inordinate amount of water in their garden.
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Same here, hopefully they're looking into who is using so much water, especially when there was a hose pipe ban on.

I'm fairly sure they wouldn't be using so much if they were being metered.
 
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gilesjuk

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Metering in many cases gets your bill down. Unless you're wasteful of course. Most of the cost of your water bill is on the treatment and surface water side of things.
 
BobClay

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When I bought my house in Mynors St 80/81 I remember going down to the water board (somewhere near Anson House at the time) and asking if I could have a water meter as I was away most of the year at sea. The bloke pulled a meter out and plonked it in front of me. "Get it fitted and the let us know to inspect the fitting. It needs to be somewhere near the stop cock in the house." I had a mate who was a plumber (Andrew Kite, known as 'Dos,') who fitted it and the water board came and ticked it off. Best thing I ever did, water bill withered away.

But I daresay that's all changed now.
 
Jonah

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Thehooperman said:
Just had a letter from Severn Trent to say they're installing a water meter on my boundary claiming this will help them track and detect leaks much faster.

They state that this won't change how I pay my water bill but I'm just wondering how long before they force metering on everyone once they've got a certain quantity of meters working?
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I had the same letter - 4 times to be exact and 3 times they never fitted the meter - it was eventually fitted sometime last year. I haven't been forced to have my water metered yet.
 
Withnail

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Thehooperman said:
They state that this won't change how I pay my water bill but I'm just wondering how long before they force metering on everyone once they've got a certain quantity of meters working?
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And this would be a bad thing, why?

Lots of people waste water without thought - at a time that people are starting to see the benefits of energy meters, isn't it time we all got a grip on what we consume?

Water in this country is very cheap, so it goes under the radar a bit - but when you flush something like 3 litres of perfectly potable, treated water, to rid yourself of a few millilitres of piss, you are being almost criminally wasteful. This is one of those things that actually really pisses me off. When you consider how many people struggle to even access dirty water, walking for miles there and back, when you think of the clean stuff that comes out of our f**ing taps, right into our homes, you realise we live like Kings.

Interesting question - where does the Crimea get its water?
 
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Mudgie

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Withnail said:
And this would be a bad thing, why?

Lots of people waste water without thought - at a time that people are starting to see the benefits of energy meters, isn't it time we all got a grip on what we consume?

Water in this country is very cheap, so it goes under the radar a bit - but when you flush something like 3 litres of perfectly potable, treated water, to rid yourself of a few millilitres of piss, you are being almost criminally wasteful. This is one of those things that actually really pisses me off. When you consider how many people struggle to even access dirty water, walking for miles there and back, when you think of the clean stuff that comes out of our f**ing taps, right into our homes, you realise we live like Kings.

Interesting question - where does the Crimea get its water?
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"but when you flush something like 3 litres of perfectly potable, treated water, to rid yourself of a few millilitres of piss, you are being almost criminally wasteful" - yes, especially as urine isn't really harmful, and certainly not in the toilet bowl.
 
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BobClay

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Southwest Water is one of the most expensive in the country. When I moved into this bungalow I was stunned at my first water bill. (1991) and I immediately asked if I could get a water meter fitted. They came and fitted it at no cost, but none of this 'near the stop cock' business but out on the driveway near the water main.
Water bill halved in one go. Of course I am flying solo, but I do take a shower every time the Sun crosses the equator, whether I need it or not !! 🤪😛
 
Gramaisc

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My experiments here suggest that my plan to supply the toilet cisterns with rainwater is quite viable, with a bit of storage capacity for use/supply confliction.

In a house up the road, we put in a one tonne tank, supplied from the rear of a bungalow, for garden watering, car washing, etc. Even during the dramatic dry spell in 2018, it's never been below half-full.

In Cyprus, we had two water supplies - drinking water, which was only connected to one tap at the kitchen sink, and a 'general supply', which did everything else - although this had the "big bits" removed, it was 'not for consumption".
 
tek-monkey

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Thehooperman said:
Just had a letter from Severn Trent to say they're installing a water meter on my boundary claiming this will help them track and detect leaks much faster.

They state that this won't change how I pay my water bill but I'm just wondering how long before they force metering on everyone once they've got a certain quantity of meters working?
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They did ours last year, took 2 hours at most and I still pay a flat rate
 
Withnail

Withnail

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BobClay said:
Southwest Water is one of the most expensive in the country.
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How does it compare to Harrowgate bottled water@50p per l?

Water should, obviously, be thought of as a human right. One day, when all of this is over, it will be.
 
Gramaisc

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Mmm, how much water is a reasonable amount to use?

I've just done an annual reading here and it's showing an increment of 23.1 cubic metres.

With the house occupied for 306 of those days, that's 75 litres a day. Or 27.5 cubic metres equivalent, for a fully occupied year.
 
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