Easton, Pennsylvania’s rental housing runs from the row homes downtown to the older multifamily up on College Hill, and Lafayette College keeps a steady share of it leased to students. Almost all of those buildings share one water meter, which means the owner is the only party with any financial stake in how much water gets used. Water submetering assigns that stake to each unit instead. A tenant who signs for the academic year and leaves in May has little reason to report a fixture that drips through the winter. True Submeter installs an individual water meter on each unit and sends every tenant an automatic monthly invoice for exactly what they used, so the water bill comes back to the owner rather than sitting on the books. Consumption drops once it carries a price, disagreements over splitting a shared bill end, and net operating income improves. One building, one bill, one person paying it. That is the part worth changing.
