Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | Complete

[tomh009]

There is a simple solution to this, but it requires co-operation of the utilities: meter all the water going in from the street, and also meter the water going to each unit. Bill each unit for its consumption, and bill the condo for the water going in from the street minus the total of water going to all the units. Then the condo is on the hook for any leakage or other problems within the building and upstream of the individual unit meters.

That's hundreds of individual water pipes throughout the building. Some construction cost, some space (a few elevator shafts' worth at the minimum)--and a lot more pipe connections that can potentially leak.