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Mount Pearl's water consumption is up significantly, with higher usage than St. John's per capita, and about double that of Conception Bay South.
Mayor Randy Simms says he can't explain why this is occurring, but work needs to be done to get their numbers down. Otherwise, Simms says a consumption-based water system may have to be implemented.
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St. John's supplies more than three times as much water for domestic consumption per capita as Charlottetown and more than twice as much per capita as several other Canadian cities. A lot of that water leaks away, but it's impossible to identify leaks without knowing how much water is making it to end users, so meters will be necessary to bring down consumption. With automatic meter reading, ongoing costs will be low. There's a strange notion in St. John's that old houses will be difficult to install meters in. Any house where this might be true would have a much bigger problem; namely, the lack of an accessible main shut-off valve near which the meter would otherwise be connected.
