Why Would Your Customers Wish to Pay Someone Else’s Water Bill?
When your neighbor wishes to use the most extensive cable television package available and you only watch one channel once every other week, you wouldn’t want to pay the same bill. The same applies to using water within a multiunit building. Why should one individual pay the same water bill as a family of six? The installation of a water submeter is the best answer to make bills fair and effective.
Traditional Versus Modern Water Bills
Where one person or company owns a building, but it is occupied by a variety of families, students and individuals, it is certainly not fair that they all receive the same water bill. In traditional times, the entire building would be billed for its water use. The owner or manager of the building would then issue water bills to each of the individual residents. This billing may have been hidden within a monthly rental fee or transparent and equal to all.
Often, the Water Bill was split according to the square footage of the unit, which became even more unfair where one individual rented a bigger unit than a family of four.
The installation of a water submeter for every one individual or family renting one unit in the building, provides the building owner or manager with an individual water usage reading for each occupied area. With this information, each individual unit can be billed for its own use of water.
By installing a water submeter for each unit, individuals can assess their own water usage, cut back where necessary and identify leaks far quicker, especially when they have a bill to pay that matches their water use.
This encourages each unit to conserve water where they can and effectively reduce waste. Should every multiunit building choose this method of measuring their water usage, the savings across the United States would be enormous, both financially and excellent for the environment.
In this fairer system, high users of water will be responsible for paying a larger bill, whatever the size of their property.