To ask how much is your water bill? If you are on a meter

See I don't understand this as everyone I know locally ( South west water) has had their bill double or close to double with the recent rises.

£76 a month because south west water are a bunch of cxxts

Dishwashers use less than washing by hand.
Teens do seem to use a lot of water at least girls do in my experience!

I use approx. 26m3 per year so I pay around £19 per month and I'm generally in a few quid credit when the bill comes in. Wessex Water.

£62 a month. Metered and Yorkshire water is supplier. 4 bed house, two occupants.

I live by myself in a three bedroom house. I get a single household discount on my water rate as well as in the council tax.

I just feel an awful lot of sympathy for eg families where a member has a health conditions that requires extra laundry and showers etc.

I hate to think of people not being able to afford to use water when it seems such a basic human right to have access to it.

Oh dear!

Does that explain your username?!?!??!

But don't you think that water meters are fairer because then every household pays for what they use, whereas a flat fee based on rateable value bears no relation to the amount used? Water should be metered the same way fuel is.
For example I now live alone in a 4 bed house and changed to a meter several years ago. My water usage is massively lower than when my 2 children lived here with all the extra showers, baths, clothes washing, dishwashing etc. I have garden water butts, no hot tub.

Yet if I wasn't metered I'd pay the same as my neighbour with 2 adults and 3 children in their house, no water butts, wash 2 cars every week. How can that be fair?

Mine is £30 per month and there are 2 of us living in the house.

Yes - I had the same worry that once they trap you in they can just raise the value, but it does look staggered for household use. I thought it was going to be more expensive to be on a meter because they'd somehow charge for the use of their "expertise" to use tech to get an accurate reading etc, then any disturbance to the house - drilling, being home or whatever that might be needed to install.

I'm more annoyed about the sewage releases into local rivers and the sea we are paying for while the CEO's get profits and bonuses every year while they don't repair the system because the fines are so measly they're happy to pay the fines. Walking in our town you can smell it in the rivers just upstream of a local playground. We have to have social scientists collecting data of what is in the river to hold them to account! It's all crazy when just a few guys in a boardroom have multiple properties and luxury yachts at our expense.

This is what I can't understand. We are Southern water and paying £160 now for 4 adults.
Is your price after the 41% price rise introduced?

You are right that water shortage should be of concern to everyone, including the people of Scotland.
And that's why I try and not be wasteful with my water use.
My concern with water meters is that as usual it is the people who have the lowest incomes who are hit by them. Those with higher incomes have the money to be still be wasteful with their water usage. The rich and the very rich can afford to pay fines for breaking hosepipe bans.

Kent has regular hosepipe bans as well, or used to . What's the connection with water meters?

£100.
3 of us. One teen with SEN who has long showers, creates lots of kitchen mess for the dishwasher and changes clothes a lot. Lots of gym kit needing constant washing too.

That is exactly what pisses me off - they have a total monopoly in your area so nothing you can do about it!

£41 per month which I'm shocked at tbh - 4 bed house but only me living there at the moment. One shower per day, no dishwasher, max two washing machine loads a week, don't water the garden. I think the bill comes from the previous 6 months when my son was living there too - twice the showers and toilet flushes - but it's never been below £35 a month. Severn Trent/Anglian

£157 per month

Yes, but aren't you worried that Scotland will run out of water due to climate change? I think you had hosepipe bans this year.

Don't you think that it is irresponsible not to install water meters to preserve water?

Now it’s about £65-70 a month, 4 adults. Southern Water.

Our problem is the standing charges. (Sewage charge in particular nearly £500). Nearly £700 per year in fixed charges we can't reduce even if we go on a meter. That's not even adding on the actual water!
Yorkshire Water totally refuse to check their figures. They say "It's based on rateable value done decades ago that can't be challenged."
Should a 3 bed ex council property really generate such high standing charges?
I think not. Other more affluent properties nearby paying a lot less. Anybody else had this issue.

There's an interesting thread on this at Money Saving Expert, with a chart comparing the various rates across the country, explaining why some are so high, and suggesting measures to reduce water usage.

The highest rise for 2025 was Southern Water (47%!!!)

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2024/12/water-bills-rise-england-wales-2025/

£44, 3 bed semi, 2 bathrooms. 4 adults having a shower everyday, no bath. Dishwasher on three times a week.

They bill half-yearly in some areas, so that will be for the first half of the financial year.

I switched to a meter years ago when I was still married to my ex and the cost went down, so it should definitely be cheaper if you're the sole occupier (unless you spend ages in the shower every day or something).

I got an email from Southern Water telling me they're putting my monthly payment up to £57-something. I'm single, no kids, never water the garden, take short showers instead of baths, never run the dishwasher or washing machine unless it's a full load etc.

The paper bill came yesterday and I haven't checked it yet, but I will. A few years ago they put the DD amount up by shedloads, and they'd assumed that I would use a lot more water than I actually did. If last year's usage at this year's prices is less than they want me to pay, I'll reduce the DD to what I think it should be.

They seem to think they're entitled to have my money sitting in their account, for some reason.