How often should tap water meters be read (is there any legal basis for this?)

The price of tap water will be adjusted after June 1, but the water used in the meter reading in June was used before June. The water will be charged according to the adjusted water price. Has the price been increased in advance? "Recently, many citizens have reported to this newspaper that they do not understand the tap water charging measures.

The reporter interviewed Chen Min, deputy director of the business office of the municipal water company. She told the reporter that according to "Handan City Development and Article 3 of the Notice of the Reform Commission on Adjusting Tap Water Prices in the Main Urban District of Handan City stipulates: "The adjusted prices will be implemented based on the actual water volume from June 1. "This means that the tap water price was adjusted in June 2018, and the water consumption was based on the actual water volume in June. The so-called "copied water volume" does not refer to the water consumption used by users starting from June 1 , but refers to the water consumption displayed by the water meter reading on June 1st.

For example, if user A reads the meter on the 1st of each month, then the meter reading time is not exactly the same. The meter reading is the water consumption from May 1st to May 31st, and user B reads the meter on the 10th of each month, so the meter reading is the water consumption from May 10th to June 9th. Currently, many cities in our country have water consumption. They all adopt the method of adjusting water prices according to the measured water volume.

Chen Min also said that the water company now reads the water meter at each household every two months, so the measured water volume is from the meter reading date in April. The way the water company calculates the water consumption for the two months to the meter reading date in June is to divide the measured water consumption into two equal parts, with one half billed according to the unadjusted water price and the other half billed according to the adjusted water price.