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).
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