They come around and read the meters each month.
What they want: Reduced irrigation water use
How they are trying to accomplish this: Tell people they can only water once per week for 2 months
The problem: Hard to enforce. You can send a nasty-gram but the restriction will be over in 2 months. People can reduce their watering to one day a week but increase the runtime. There doesn't appear to be a restriction on the amount of water you actually use.
What will this accomplish: Hard to say but hopefully they will get enough compliance to have an impact.
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Originally Posted by pauld315
Are you sure ? Do they actually have somebody walk door to door reading water meters once a month ? About 5 years ago at my house in Cary NC they installed a system where they don't have to send anybody to read meters anymore. I have a website I can go to and see my water usage by the hour if I want to. There is about a 3 or 4 hour delay from usage to updating the website. It is actually useful as you can setup alerts when your water usage exceeds x gallons in a day etc.
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