Image source: UnitedWaterBlog.com Government can now use smart water meters to monitor your water use and enforce regulations. The city of Long Beach, California, is using the meters to enforce Governor Jerry Brown’s statewide 25 percent restriction on water use, CBS in Los Angeles reported. The smart meters monitor water flow and then transmit that information to the water department via wireless technology. That enables officials to detect violations like overwatering lawns and to take legal action against home, business and property owners. “It collects the data every five minutes, then after midnight, the cellphone that’s built in here comes on, makes one call, and calls it in to the database that we and the customer, through a password security system, have online access to their consumption,” Keven Wattier, the general manager of the Long Beach Water Department, told CBS of the technology. “The accuracy is just incredible, because we get the data the next day.” New Survival Energy Product Makes Every Window A Powerful Solar Charger CBS reported that a McDonald’s franchise on Bellflower Boulevard in Long Beach received an $800 fine for flooding its landscaping with water after midnight because of data from a smart meter. Before the meters, there was little that the city could do to stop the waste.
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