[jambutty]

Surely no one was expecting it to be cheaper were they?

The cost per metered litre is bound to be more than the cost calculated for the lowest un-metered user. It’s called a back door increase.

In a one bedroom flat with only a shower instead of a bath and just me, my water usage is going to be about as minimal as you can get. Years on a warship where fresh water is strictly limited teaches the crew to be economical with fresh water. The desalination plant was only for the ship’s boilers back in the fifties and sixties so we took fresh water with us and once it was gone there was no more until we got back to port.

Yet I end up paying £234 with a meter as opposed to the $182 that I paid last year.

I wonder how many people did like I did the first time and put the usage related to their DAILY use and not WEEKLY use. Anyone who appears to pay less do it again and make sure that your figures are WEEKLY figures. I know it says ‘per week’ but it can be missed.

I don’t know how many customers United Utility has but based on my increase UU would get a minimum of an extra £52m pa for every one million customers if they were all on meters. I suspect that for the average family the increase would be over £100 pa and UU maybe has 5 million customers. That works out at an extra half a billion. That’s 25% for the fat cat bosses, 50% for the shareholders and 25% for the FREE meters.

You used to be able to buy heavy plastic ‘bags’ that you filled with water and placed in the cistern away from the moving parts. This in effect reduced the capacity of the cistern and thus less water was used per flush. Any plastic bag will do though or even a plastic bottle. In fact you can use anything that reduces the capacity of the cistern.