There is one city in Quebec with water meters ( for commercial and industry buildings )
It was one of the biggest orgies of corruption ever and a total waste of taxpayers' money. The contract to a private company is ~356 million dollars. To partly monitor water consumption of one city for 25 years. The city itself is wasting at least an extra 67 million dollars on top of the contract to the private company, so 423 million dollars. TO MONITOR WATER CONSUMPTION. WTF.
Voting special funding to upgrade the grid and spy on your every power consumption habits to control you with changing prices by the hour will be just as bad.
You know how much red tape, delays and corruption there will be to mass upgrade our power grids??
There is one city in Quebec with water meters ( for commercial and industry buildings )
It was one of the biggest orgies of corruption ever and a total waste of taxpayers' money. The contract to a private company is ~356 million dollars. To partly monitor water consumption of one city for 25 years. The city itself is wasting at least an extra 67 million dollars on top of the contract to the private company, so 423 million dollars. TO MONITOR WATER CONSUMPTION. WTF.
Voting special funding to upgrade the grid and spy on your every power consumption habits to control you with changing prices by the hour will be just as bad.
In Baguette only : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandale_des_compteurs_d'eau