Fixing a water meter is a good idea, but I don’t know how far it is suitable for our pipeline design because as per my knowledge there are couple of backbone for each verticals and obviously this is correct architecture too because supplying water for all outlets for a flat from a single backbone results slow water flow, If it would have been a single valve per flat architecture, then we could think of it. Now we need to pump-in huge money to set it up, say 500 - 1000 bucks per flat.
Moreover it’s a kind of reactive measure and would create problems every day, meaning indirectly we are saying “We don’t care about the water consumption if the cost for excess usage is collected” - is not appreciable.
As Karthik said “Leaks can easily be identified” would be the only advantage. I would say “finding a water consumption baseline per flat” would be the starting point for inviting problems (or) initiating micro level management (or) increasing complication on our system. Eventually this is not going to work out (or) solve any of our water problems permanently, so spending time, money and efforts towards fixing the water meter is worthless at this point of time is my personal opinion.
Instead,
1. Fixing individual valves per flat even it is 2 or more backbones
2. Water available time (2 hours in the morning & in the evening)
3. Huge fine system for wasting water
4. Educating flat owners about the situation
5. Educating tenants about how to open the tap and close it.
6. Increasing Maintenance atlast if no other way to go
could help us to fix this problem permanently
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