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Hole in your pocket or leak in your pipe?
            Recently in a large city not far from where I live, people began receiving water bills that were totally out of line and seemingly ridiculous.  Some of them were well over $1000 for one month’s service.  Of course residents complained—some to the municipality, some to the media, and most to their family, friends, and neighbors.  One article I read gave statistics from the AAWA (American Water Works Association) that reported the possibility that a1/16″ leak could cause you to lose 970 gallons of water in a twenty-four hour period.  They estimated the increase in your monthly bill might be as much as $600.  When only one person reports this kind of jump, there is a tendency for those in charge to ignore the protest and attribute the difference to consumer overuse.  However, when an entire section of a city complains, city water departments must take note.  Thus the city began to look for the cause or causes for these substantial increases in water use.  Since water pipes were hidden under the ground, locating major problems required costly detection, serious damage to property, and expensive reclamation services.  They checked water meters of the area involved, looked for ... more

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