I’d love to see some reporting on the typical city’s lost and unaccounted for rates. It’s very hypocrtical of cities to request conservation when their delivery systems loose as much as 20% of the water that comes into it.

Water is often lost via leaks in underground pipes (contributing to pot holes) or via inaccurate water meters. The city passes on the costs from water they loose into your water rates. If we’d been stricter with how cities could recover this lost revenue cities would have had incentive to replace pipes before they rotted away. Our infastructure would have been far better off.