https://theworldwatch.com/tags/water-companies/ Sat 15 Aug 2026 15:28:10 +0200 https://theworldwatch.com/videos/1618707/check-your-water-bill-water-companies-are-now-doing-drive-by-readings/
<div>If your water bill is high in America this might be why</div> <div> </div> <div>This American was gone for 3 weeks out of the month, he gets back and has an extremely high water bill. He calls the water company because that doesn’t make any sense, he wasn’t even home most of the month</div> <div> </div> <div>The water company tells him they no longer read meters, they instead do drive- bys. A worker drives through neighborhoods and an electronic signal is picked up from the meters recoding the readings</div> <div> </div> <div>If the reading fails, they just estimate the bill based on the usage at this time last year</div> <div> </div> <div>But here’s the thing, he didn’t even live in this place last year, they are estimating the usage based on the previous tenants usage because that’s who lived there</div> <div> </div> <div>The wild thing is, I looked into it and this is legal and many water companies do this. In fact if you challenge it and want a manual reading, they will charge you a fee to have someone come out and read it </div> <div> </div> <div>This is a scam</div> ]]> Sat 15 Aug 2026 11:13:03 +0200 https://theworldwatch.com/videos/1618707/check-your-water-bill-water-companies-are-now-doing-drive-by-readings/