Domestic water meter inside a bathroom of an apartment, Leichlingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
In Germany, domestic water consumption for metered apartments (112 liter/capita/day) was 18% lower than for unmetered apartments (137 liter/capita/day) in 1992 the municipal utility Hamburger Wasserwerke GmbH had installed more than 40,000 water meters in individual apartments of older homes since 1985. All new apartments had to be metered by law. Previously there had been only a single meter for the entire block.
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Location: Leichlingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Photo credit: © Clynt Garnham Environmental / Alamy / Afripics
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