As for increased use of water metering, the consumer body described the concept as fair but stopped short of supporting the compulsory installation of meters across the whole of England and Wales.

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So Parks borrowed a tool common in the welding of plastic components, which is to gently agitate the hopper so that particles flow like water into a metering chamber.

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There were also discussions around innovation that would be more relevant to utility markets such as smart metering, leak detection, pressure regulation, water quality monitoring and more.

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It applauds ministers' commitment to tackle unsustainable abstraction from rivers and wetlands, extend the use of metering at a fair price and develop a catchment-based approach to managing the water environment.

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