Poster
09-09-2003, 09:53 AM
The EPA is proposing changes to the Clean Water Act, that would alter current regulations, allowing property owners to charge residents a metered rate for actual water use. Currently, the Act says apartment residents are able to pay a flat rate for their water supply. EPA studies show that residents tend to conserve more water when they know how much they’re actually using.
“Water meters, used to measure consumption, are necessary to conduct this usage billing, and "submeters" may be needed for the 15 percent of Americans who live in apartments. One way to encourage more residential submetering is to remove the potential regulatory burden currently faced by apartment building owners who install submeters and bill tenants separately for water.”
Once the Safe Drinking Water Act guidelines are relaxed, property managers will no longer be subject to public drinking water provider fees and responsibility. This will encourage owners to install water meters and submeters.
“EPA has previously issued guidance stating that any building or property owner who meets the definition of a PWS and receives water from a regulated public water system, but bills tenants separately for this water, is selling the water and is independently subject to safe drinking water requirements. As a way to promote full cost and conservation pricing to achieve water conservation, the Agency now proposes to change the policy as it applies to a limited aspect of submetering and direct billing of residential tenants.”
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“Water meters, used to measure consumption, are necessary to conduct this usage billing, and "submeters" may be needed for the 15 percent of Americans who live in apartments. One way to encourage more residential submetering is to remove the potential regulatory burden currently faced by apartment building owners who install submeters and bill tenants separately for water.”
Once the Safe Drinking Water Act guidelines are relaxed, property managers will no longer be subject to public drinking water provider fees and responsibility. This will encourage owners to install water meters and submeters.
“EPA has previously issued guidance stating that any building or property owner who meets the definition of a PWS and receives water from a regulated public water system, but bills tenants separately for this water, is selling the water and is independently subject to safe drinking water requirements. As a way to promote full cost and conservation pricing to achieve water conservation, the Agency now proposes to change the policy as it applies to a limited aspect of submetering and direct billing of residential tenants.”
To learn more go to: http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=138-09082003