to have a water meter, yes or no?

Albermarle

pieroabcd said:

A meter is just a meter. It doesn't make you save anything at all.
On a flat rate probably it's another story.

If you have an analog meter you can do like me: send the reading the last day of every mont, that is what the smart meter would do.

With gas and electricity I only had increases since I switched to smart meters, so I won't accept them ever again.

My electric and gas Smart meters update every half an hour and I can see the usage on an app on my phone a few hours later.
My bills also went up as the meter was installed not long before gas and electric prices shot up, but now they are coming back down again.
Having a smart meter does not increase or decrease your bills.

pieroabcd

I'm considering only the KWH used: since I've had the smart meters installed I've been billed 20% KWH more than with the analog meters.
I've been told that the previous meters may have been running slow (or maybe my smart meters are running fast? Who can tell?), but the end result is that I'm paying more.

Other people reported the same in this forum.

As for the frequency of updates, what matters for billing purposes is the monthly period.
The frequent updates make it more comfortable to take readings, but it's nothing that you can't do watching the analog meters.

BarelySentientAI

pieroabcd said:

A meter is just a meter. It doesn't make you save anything at all.
On a flat rate probably it's another story.

Which is exactly the discussion here.

Water is either not on a meter, so you pay a charge based on rateable value, or on a meter, so you pay for what you use.

Don't try and confuse or derail the thread with a discussion that's already been done to death on the other board.