Thinking about a water meter?

You may now be thinking about how much water you use and what you could do to save water in your home and garden. Scottish Water may be able to help you to measure your water usage and only pay for what you use. If you feel that you are already water efficient then you may benefit from us installing a water meter in your home.

You can opt, at your own cost, to have a meter installed on the water supply to your property. Scottish Water will provide the meter only at our expense, all other costs involved in creating the space for the meter to be installed must be met by you, the homeowner.

If you don’t own the property then you must have the owner’s permission to do this. Where the property is not metered or occupied for a full year the charges will be apportioned on a daily basis.

The amount you will pay for meter installation costs will depend on the size of the meter required to serve your house or dwelling and the type of installation - the costs for 2009/10 are detailed in the Schedule of Rates which you can view and/or download from the Useful Links section on the right.

You can use the calculator on the right to estimate your water consumption. You can then use this total to work out how much you may be charged if a water meter was installed, and compare this against what you are charged now based on your Council Tax Band for your property.