Check your water bill, Water companies are now doing "Drive by" readings

If your water bill is high in America this might be why

 

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

 

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

 

If the reading fails, they just estimate the bill based on the usage at this time last year

 

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

 

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 

 

This is a scam