Householder checking the readout on a water meter
In Hamburg, 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 houses since 1985. All new apartments had to be metered by law. Previously there had been only a single meter for the entire house in multi-apartment houses.
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Location: Leichingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Photo credit: © Clynt Garnham Environmental / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: dial, domestic, environmental, figures, german, household, householder, kaltwasser, meter, metering, metrona, reading, readings, usage, utilities, utility, water
