Comment by comrade1234
9 hours ago
Not n Switzerland... water is practically free. they don't even bother with putting water meters on individual apartments and instead just split the bill up by all of the apartments at the end of the year. Hot water is metered though.
I've lived all over the USA and I remember wondering why I was stuck with a shitty shower with California-standard shower head even though water was cheap and plentiful where I lived.
In Finland even the hot water bill is split, per-apartment water meters are only now getting common in new buildings.
> Hot water is metered though
This is weird to me, in the places I've lived in the US each apartment has its own hot water heater. You don't get hot water delivered, you get cold water and heat it yourself (you pay for it indirectly via the gas / electric bill.)
We have a hot-water-on-demand heater for the entire building. It's about the height of a hot water heater but the radius is maybe 4x and the whole thing looks like it was designed by apple.
A lot of countries have city wide hot water plants, especially in Northern Europe and Asia, I think you will find them in northern Canada as well . Some places have building wide hot water, not in the USA though.
same in Austria. The mountains giveth