Welcome back: The hot weather has brought calls for the government to introduce water metering, to stop us using so much.

Water metering is the process of measuring water use.

A year ago, with a $95,000 low-interest city loan, he did a moderate rehabilitation that included water metering.

Domestic water metering should not be imposed because the likely effects will be increased and excessive charges.

The prevalence of residential water metering varies significantly worldwide.

Water metering is also very expensive.

The share of residential water metering in selected cities in developing countries is as follows:

To the Editor: New York City has not changed its policy of requiring water metering for all properties.

Water metering is the precondition for billing water users on the basis of volume consumed.

From the early evidence, it appears that water metering will provide a severe economic jolt to many buildings, probably in moderate-income neighborhoods in particular.

Issues to be discussed include the rising rate of tax-delinquent residential properties and the impact on building operating costs of mandatory water metering.

"We thought about using water metering, too, but it's tough to quantify," Dr. Salvo said.

The promotion of water conservation was one of the main purposes of the turn to universal water metering, which began in 1986.

This latter method was made possible by the extensive introduction of water metering, which was included in many concession contracts in the 1990s.

Water is normally paid for via the water rates, but the water industry is looking at the feasibility of water metering in the future.

For the first time, Capital Development Authority is introducing water metering and billing through digital metering as a pilot project.

As the city moves to universal water metering, water charges will become universally based on the amount of water the residents of a building actually use.

So far, the water metering trials have found that 65 per cent of households are paying less than, or the same as, their previous bill using rateable values.

UWSSAs carry out water metering.

"Water metering has proven that it has a built-in disadvantage for densely populated, low-income apartment buildings with numerous doubled-up families," he said.

Water metering is common for residential and commercial drinking water supply in many countries, as well as for industrial self-supply with water.

Water metering, first proposed almost a century ago, when the water system was new, was unpopular among New Yorkers who viewed their water as free.

Opponents say large families or families with young children have little choice about using a lot of water and could face large price increases with water metering.

They are widely used in custody transfer of oils and liquid fluids (gasoline) and are applied on residential home natural gas and water metering.

He is hearing it from owners shocked by the early evidence of what water metering is going to mean to operating costs in apartment buildings with high-density occupancy.