Wasting Water

My wife and I live on a stud with about 50 thirsty racehorses. Our water-meter also serves another family, two staff flats and two cottages, so it must be expensive.

It costs us well under a thousand pounds for a year.

We also have friends who pay three hundred pounds a year for water because they don't have a meter and they probably use well under a quarter of the water we do. So if you want to save money get a meter.

Everybody should be metered. Only the gardeners will find they pay more.

When this happened in the Isle of Wight, it cut water usage by ten percent.

One of the side affects of metering is that water companies can locate the leaks much quicker, by analysing the meters.