Wednesday, June 6, 2012

United Kingdom: Water must be metered, engineers say

Independent: Water metering should be introduced across the UK to help tackle water shortages, which will only get worse unless action is taken now, Britain's civil engineers say today. A metering system that charges households more for high water use for non-essential activities such as cleaning the car, with "social tariffs" to protect vulnerable customers, is one of a number of measures urgently needed to relieve Britain's growing water crisis, according to the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). These...

URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/water-must-be-metered-engineers-say-7821233.html

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