-- One bedroom/1person apt cant use that much water as I
-- previously stated.
You really don't understand how bad a tenant can be, do you?
Let me give you a scenario: A landlord informs the tenants that their lease will not be renewed. They do not like this and begin looking for every means possible to "stick it" to the landlord. It would be quite possible for tenants to attach a water hose to a basement sink and let it drain directly into a nearby catch basin for the final month of their tenancy. The motivation for doing this would be pure spite and please believe me that such things are possible.
Do all tenants behave this way? Of course not. In fact, the vast majority are NOT like this. However, until the BCWA calls the person who's name is on a water bill to warn them that charges are being racked up, the landlord has no other protection. The cost of something like this would be hundreds of dollars within a one-month time period.
The only real protection is a policy where anyone who uses the water pays for the water. At some level, this is also just common sense, since it encourages every user to conserve the resource.
I'm not sure how you can see paying for something you use as unfair.
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