Mandatory Water Meters coming soon!

[hlee72ca]

In December 2011, City Council will consider whether to make water meters mandatory for all new single family homes and duplexes in Vancouver. Just read it from city of Vancouver website. In Richmond and Surrey it is on voluntary basis and they say that 50% are metered. Of course I am referring to residential only, as all commerical are already metered. I for one welcome the new regulations, I will conserve water by collecting rainwater in 50 gallon plastic drums, for water changes, watering the garden, forget about watering the lawn in summer etc. I can see in the near future that water will be BC's biggest export. The US will be building pipelines to tap our water and China will have water barges instead of oil barges. Consider that most water in China is undrinkable from the tap and billions of people are drinking bottled water. Where does the water come from, for the bottled water? Can RO units filter out that much pollutants. With global warming, melting icecaps, receding lakes, ie. Africa. Forget about the oil wars, in the future it will be water wars. Many of the rich and powerful are buying up the water rights around the world.

[gklaw]

Hope this is not another spam JK.

So rain water for WC. Like to hear more about that idea.

[hlee72ca]

They are voting on the issue in Dec 2011, do you think Vancouver city council will pass up an opportunity to grab more tax dollars? New bike lanes cost millions of $$$, lol. Do you think the other municipalities will not join in? Count on it, in Gregor we trust(not). Just get those big 50 gallon blue, food safe, barrels, place them in your back yard to collect the rainwater. You can get one of those little giant pumps attached to a garden hose to bring the water inside. The only thing is temperature control, I have a 60 gallon plexiglass water holding tank with a heater and powerhead to add the water to the tank.

[gklaw]

This has been in discussion for over 10 years now. The big proponent was then the newly privatized Terrasen gas who has the infrastructure to meter and collect. So they have been lobbying municipalities to let them install meters for the municipalities and to collect for them - and of course, taking their cut.

It is inevitable, it is just a matter of when they bite the bullet and make it a financially profitable and palatable proposition.

[hlee72ca]

BC hydro is putting in the smart meters and I fail to see how its really going to save us money, infact I think its going to cost us $$$$$$. Water meters are read using the latest Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) technology. This technology allows meters to be read via radio by a vehicle mounted interrogation unit during each billing cycle. (this was taken from city of Vancouver site). "mounted interrogation unit" Are we terrorists? do we need to get interrogated? I will honestly tell you the reading from my water meter, there is no need to interrogate me!

[Gregzz4]

Count on it, in Gregor we trust(not).

Don't get me started on that lame-ass...
He is totally useless.
Where was he when the Stanley Cup riots started?

[hlee72ca]

Hey why are you complaining, he's not your mayor, your mayor has the balls to vote against raising property taxes to fund the evergreen line. Every other mayor voted to increase property taxes this one time for the evergreen line.(yeah right) Wait til they realize the expo line is 25 yrs old and needs a major infusion of tax dollars to keep it running, how many municipalities will raise their property taxes to help rebuild vancouver's Expo line? But I digress.

[Gregzz4]

We'll have to see what happens with the new Vancouver units.
The City of Burnaby is only just now implementing the Smart Meters for Electricity.
Next we'll have water metering.
1984... it's only 30 years behind the novel, but Orwell had it pegged.
Any forward-thinking person can see the government will eventually absorb everything.
God forbid they find out about us fish-keepers and our voluminous water changes.

I am INSANE, come lock me up

OK, I just put that there so the government spooks would 'leaf me alone'[/I]
Uh oh, they found me...nice knowin' yas

[Gregzz4]

Hey why are you complaining, he's not your mayor, your mayor has the balls to vote against raising property taxes to fund the evergreen line. Every other mayor voted to increase property taxes this one time for the evergreen line.(yeah right) Wait til they realize the expo line is 25 yrs old and needs a major infusion of tax dollars to keep it running, how many municipalities will raise their property taxes to help rebuild vancouver's Expo line? But I digress.

I compain because our business is in Vancouver and Gregor has done nothing with our tax dollars.
And ya, our Burnaby Mayor is one of the best in a long line of money-pinching dudes who has kept our city of Bby almost even.
Not much I can add to that.

[Gregzz4]

BTW, we are moving away from the original posters topic...