Re: Hosepipe bans
I think I was about 10 when the whole "water meter" thing started coming in, at the time I asked my father who worked for Anglian Water if we were going to get one, his reply was no, it would cost us more money to use a water meter, they are great for 2-3 people, but 2 adults and 4 children means our bill would go up if we did.
If like me, you are a single man, then of course a water meter makes a lot of sense, I pay about £160 a year in total for water, the fixed rate would be about £580 a year, but that is for a single man who is not too extravagant with water use, the fixed rate is about 3.6 times what I'm paying, so a family of 4 would probably be about breaking even on a fixed rate vs meter, a family of 6 would almost certainly be better off on the fixed rate, and you do still get families of 10+
Biting the hand that feeds IT
