METERAGE
If flat rate consumers of the Water Dept, of Salt Lake City, Utah, paid for water which they actually used last year at the minimum meter rate of 6 cents per thousand gallons, there would have been added to revenue of the water works department $175,495.65, according to the annual report of the department of water supply and water works, filed with the city recorder. These figures are presented by C. F. Barrett, superintendent of water works, as an argument in favor of the use of meters.
The need of meters in Chicago, Ill., is again pointed out by City Engineer John Ericson. who stated that during two weeks recently the pumping stations pumped more water per day than at any time in the hottest weather last summer and came within 40,000,000 gallons per day of the maximum capacity of the pumps. The daily consumption of water during the last week, according to Engineer Ericson, was 760,000,000 gallons. The highest figure reached last summer was 750,000,000 gallons. “The water pumped by the stations average 300 gallons per capita," said Engineer Ericson. “This is greater than in any city in the world. The reason is that nearly everyone let the water run to keep pipes from freezing. Only 6 per cent, of the taps in Chicago are metered. There the whole fault lies.”
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