Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Submetering Water [was Solar microgrid, anyone?

[Ken Winter (ken]

Hi Sharon ~

I'm glad you found my write-up on submetering useful (and even
comprehensible).  Your enthusiasm prompts me to finish writing the
unfinished parts of it – I'll try to do that in the next few weeks.  If it
does get stored on the CoHoUS site (which would be a good idea, as it's
presently on my own google-drive), please let me know and give me edit
access, so I can update it there as needed.

I think your question is whether reduced water bills (due to 20% less
consumption) offsets the ~$50/unit/year cost of this system, right?  I
don't have time now to dig up the data, but I've put your Q as a comment
into the doc, so I can address it when I do my next editing session.

BTW, we recently made a change in our service provider, and one effect of
that was to reduce our estimated costs to $40/unit/year.  I've updated the
doc accordingly.

~ Ken



On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:38 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > On Mar 24, 2022, at 6:09 PM, Ken Winter <ken [at] sunward.org> wrote:
> >
> > At Sunward Cohousing we went over to using submeters for our water bills
> > several years ago, and we're glad we did.  See my work-in-progress report
> > on this at
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/14kO0ncu6-G0W_qJKJqsjxXT9xYAotIWSXGhqTK1aF0c/edit?usp=sharing
>
> This is a wonderful document. Is there a place to store documents like
> this on the SohoUS website? It’s so complete and clearly written and
> formatted that it would be of value to everyone for at least 5-10 years.
>
> One question — when looking at the cost of $50 per unit, and water
> reduction of 20%, has this increased the overall amount the community
> spends on water service? Understanding that it has reduced water use and
> distributed costs more fairly, there are some in my community who would ask
> immediately if there is any savings to anyone beyond reducing water
> consumption which might be done in other ways.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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