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I don't understand this, if you on a meter you already pay more if you use more. Filling something huge like a pool or watering a large garden over a season costs a fair old wedge. A swimming pool can easily be 50000l, or about the same as an entire average persons usage for a year.
Is this effectively dynamic pricing for using more for those on metering, or an alternative to metering for the ~40% of households that don't have meters?
The former seems punitive when they are already paying more and the latter seems like it will be deliberately set to benefit the largest homes, the ones with pools and acres of gardens, at the expense of larger families in comparatively small homes.