Re: the ability to remotely disconnect
I live in what is the third in a row of seven terraced houses - so the centre of the row.
In the bad winter a few years ago, we made the discovery that whilst the rest of the terrace gets their water fed from the rear of the properties, mine, inexplicably, is fed from the front, and so whilst all the others had no water as the pipes froze up, mine was fine, thank you... :)