Re: sewerage, it used to be considered as a basic sanitary requirement so you could get your water cut off for not paying the bill but they couldn’t cut off your sewerage.
I recall being shown a water flow meter in college or work training and being shown a special feature.
Although you can be technically "cut off" by law they can't totally cut you off so instead the flow is restricted. The rationale being that you still have a right to clean water for drinking and sewage. (which is still mind boggling to me, all that energy expended in cleaning water to just fling it straight down the toilet).
Current place isn't metered and it's included in the rent so no idea currently but I'm not using any more than I did at the last place which was metered. Daily shower, one load of dishes by hand every day and the washing machine is on 2-3 times a week. The water company actually sent out an engineer twice to check my old meter was working as it registered such low usage but I'm just naturally good at saving water. It really pissed my uncle off at the time too as he would use every trick he knew to get his bill down (cold shower water for the toilet, water butt for the garden etc) and he could never get his bill as low as mine despite me doing very little to save water!
I've used 19 cubic metres in the last 6 months.
Yet I pay about £250 a year, half of that is standing charges.
I pay over £100 for rainwater removal and I live on the 7th floor of a 13 storey housing association flat, so basically I am being charged 13 times as much as I should be given that rain only actually falls on the top floor. (though I occasionally get leaks from above owing to the dodgy plumbing.)
If you live in a small property, you hardly pay for the water you use, most of the cost is built up through standing charges, making sure that people like me subsidise those with large gardens and swimming pools etc.
We're about £45 a month, might be more currently ? Don't check use. 4 adults and me who washes his car(s) weekly, and a bit on the garden - waterbut for green house.
Mainly showers, but daughter/son spend an age in there - going to have to change as it's a 10 KWh electric shower !!
That said it's based on last two years with additional WFH, so more loo visits (and loo roll). Although my botty prefers home loo roll than the horrible stuff at work. Expecting bills to be dropping now, daughter at Uni (local) son at work 5 days, me/missus work 3 days.
Southwest water, £73/month non metered and they still pump shit into the rivers & sea every time it rains.
Same as Jambo, but a quick calculation makes me think that we're using about 25m3 per quarter for the 4 of us. So we might be better on a meter as that would be around £90 a quarter...?
which is still mind boggling to me, all that energy expended in cleaning water to just fling it straight down the toilet
At a s****y pad nr Ascot, the client paid an extra of £300k to have a underground tank installed so that he could have natural spring water delivered and piped round the house including the cisterns for the two weeks of the year he & his family were to be in residence.
