#21231
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Flatchatter

    There’s less opportunity for reading errors and less cost for Water Supply Authorities to read and maintain one meter that records the supply to all Lots and the Common Property in a Strata Plan and to invoice the Owners Corporation for the total, than it is for them to read and maintain the individual meters fitted to each of those Lots, to invoice the Owners for their respective components of the total consumption, and to invoice the Owners Corporation for the difference.

    That’s why, even when individual meters are fitted, there’s still little incentive amongst many Water Authorities to read them, and why it’s still illegal for anyone other than a Designated Water Supply Authority to charge for water obtained from a public supply; that includes Owners Corporations, but who’s checking?