Benefits
The benefits of metering are that:
- in conjunction with volumetric pricing it provides an incentive for water conservation,
- it helps to detect water leaks in the distribution network, thus providing a basis for the reduction of Non-revenue water;
- it is a precondition for quantity-targeting of water subsidies to the poor.
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