XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 28/10/25 12:05, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   > Your Name  writes:   
   >> On 2025-10-27 15:36:44 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> This is unlikely to happen with water meters -- at least here --   
   >>> because they are mostly buried in the ground and getting a wireless   
   >>> signal out might be difficult.   
   >>   
   >> Most water meters here are in boxes* in the garden (for houses anyway).   
   >> The boxes have an easily removeable lid so the meter reader can quickly   
   >> access them to read the dial numbers. Technically it should be   
   >> relatively easy to either have a cellular / wi-fi meter that can   
   >> connect.   
   >   
   > Technically, such radio device would require power, something that is not   
   > generally present at the water company valve box.   
      
   Probably less than half New Zealand homes are metered for water.   
   Auckland, the largest city, is metered. There is a separate water charge   
   on annual Council rates where water is not metered.   
      
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