It's interesting that the water companies don't seem to ask if you want a smart meter, they just install it. Yet gas and electricity meters have to be by way of consent. I wonder why there's a difference. One thing I would say is that the water meter is much more difficult to monitor, check or read as it's not very accessible.
Compulsory smart meter!
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My water meter is easier to read, than both my gas and electric ones - these are is cabinets outside. My water meter is under my kitchen sink.
I think there are less reasons for people to have concerns about water meters than electricity/gas ones (particularly electricity ones)
For a start, water meters have no 'remote cut-off' facility. Also, although I may be wrong, I don';t think that 'smart' water meters transmit 'real-time consumption' data (rather, just 'periodic' readings.
Kind Regards, John
I have been convinced by a recent post, that more modern ones can do that.
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Unlike gas and electric, not being fitted on the orders of the government to control and curtail consumer consumption at certain times for some mythical objective because the U.K. has a virtually unlimited free supply of the raw material.
I got told that they are 'smart meters too'.
As I've recently written in another thread, my water meter (which I've never heard described as 'smart', but is equipped with very-short-range telemetry) appears to be read by them driving to just outside (sometimes inside!) my property and getting a reading ('wirelessly'( from there - just a dozen or two less paces than it would take them to walk to the meter and actually 'read it'
Kind Regards, John
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Grammatical and other linguistic comments should really be reserved for Fridaysfewer
Who knows about the future (I doubt that you or I will be around for long enough to discover!), but I'm not aware of any 'control or curtailment of consumption at certain times' yet, are you?
If the existence of 'smart' meters has resulted in any changes in the amount or pattern of consumption, that is currently a consequence of the ('voluntary') actions of consumers
Kind Regards, John
The number of times you say similar about Friday makes me think Friday is a rarity.
I am surprised you write 'less' even as a mistake.
Not yet. What else do you think the purpose of smart meters is?
It's a mistake which, like many people, I often make (and have been making throughout my life)- but you are about the only person I know who feels it necessary to 'correct' it!
You would have to ask those who decided that they were 'required'. Unfortunately, I think they are largely 'blameless', since they were undoubtedly acting on the basis of what others had persuaded them - so I suppose it's those 'others' you would really need to ask.
Kind Regards, John
TBH, everyone makes mistakes. Even EFL, you do. Yes you. Sentences do not have to be grammatically correct; they just need to be 'at least' understandable. This is a DIY forum, not a GCSE English forum.
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That depends on the mistake.
good job otherwise i would be bu66ered [buggered ]and band[banned] from every forum i [tuch]touch
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