Before leaving home we check the weather, so we can decide what to wear. When it comes to water, the information seems to be too encrypted, too hidden.
So, I have been knocking on doors asking if it is possible to find out how much water a municipality/city consumes. Guess what... there is no way to know, so far.
What next? any recommendation?
Try contacting the water treatment plant that services the town/municipality they can supply you with a report. They will also have annual numbers over the years. Another way would be to contact your Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) and find out how many MGD they treat. What goes in must come out.....
In Poland we have water municipalities that measure the water consumption by water meters installed in every house. So water consumption is monitored, of course the resolution of measurements is variable. Sometimes one can find smart meters that check the consumption every 10,15 minutes, but often it is monthly period of reporting.
Dear Peter Philbrook and Katarzyna Samborska-Goik, thank you for your answers!
You both are absolutely right and these are the doors I have knocked on. The treatment plant says it cannot control the amount of water for domestic use only, as it receives water from households and the commercial sector. In the municipalities, this information is reserved exclusively to each user, so it is virtually impossible to obtain the information in real time as a whole (consumption of a city for example).
What I can think of is to go directly to whoever pumps the water to the city and ask.
I will come back here with the answer, maybe it can be useful.
Hugs
Miejskie/Gminne przedsiębiorstwa Wodociągów i Kanalizacji.
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