Smart meter monitoring can help conserve water — but not without a fight, researchers find ...Middle East

The use of smart meters to enforce water restrictions could encourage widespread conservation — but not without local backlash, a new study has found.  Amid California’s ongoing drought, researchers partnered with the city of Fresno in summer 2018 to access and identify water violations via household meter data.  While a resulting surge in fines brought a dramatic reduction in both water use and violations, a barrage of complaints thwarted the program’s survival, according to the study, released on Wednesday by the University of Chicago’s Energy & Environment Lab.  “The urgency of the water challenge in the West requires such highly efficient tools,” co-author Michael Greenstone,

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