LeakBird

(Oct 3, 2008, The Houston Chronicle)  “In the last 10 years, the city has spent $47 million — almost twice the amount originally envisioned — installing an automated water meter reading system that has yet to reap any savings…

The automated meters, which can be read by a computer as a city employee simply drives down a street, prompted numerous customer complaints about higher water bills as neighborhoods were added to the program.”

This doesn’t seem very efficient to me.  That’s a lot of city employees in the country’s 4th largest city driving around, wasting gas, time and taxpayers’ money.

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