"SteveS" wrote in message
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"Jerry Built" wrote in message
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Neil Jones wrote:
The people who should be on water meters are the water companies
themselves. Then perhaps Thames Water, for example, would try a
bit harder to reduce its leakage rate, estimated at 925 million
litres per day.

I wonder how that is estimated.... it's very nearly 1 cubic
kilometre a day, to use units that are easy to visualise.



... but evidently not easy to calculate. It's actually nearly 0.001
cubic
kilometres, or 1 million cubic metres.

Steve S


Or to put it yet another way, it's a cube of water with sides 100m in
length.