Water meters in every home

Many of us have no concept of how much water we use. Most people don’t realise that each day we waste most of the expensively purified drinking water that comes into our homes. We drink only a fraction, with the rest being flushed down the toilet or the plughole. Many of our European neighbours find it incredible that water meters are not standard in our homes. By installing water meters, we can introduce tariff schemes that protect vulnerable customers while penalising waste. Introducing full metering and intelligent tariff schemes to southern England could halve the deficit between supply and demand predicted by 2030.