World Water Meter Report Ed 6 2007

Table of Contents

• Table of Tables
• Table of Figures

1. Executive Summary

• Positive displacement and velocimetric meters - electronic
• Water meter companies
• AMR - AMM
• Metrology regulations and type approval

2. Meter Population and Demand

3. Sub-metering

• Trends in water metering incidence in single family households and apartments
• Water scarcity and conservation
• Sector reform and market liberalisation
• Price structures
• Full cost recovery
• Market liberalisation
• Multiple objectives
• Demand side management
• Metering and sub-metering trends
• CIS countries

4. Meter trends

• Mechanical metering
• Domestic metering
• Non-mechanical metering

5. Demand Drivers

• New connections
• New commercial and industrial connections
• Replacement of aging meters
• Up-grading to advanced meters
• Prepayment meters

6. Market shares by company and country

7. France

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval
• Initial verification
• Inspection and re-verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

8. Germany

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Households
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval
• Initial verification
• Inspection and re-verification
• Meter market participants
• Prices
• Utility background

9. Hungary

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR - AMI
• Type approval
• Initial verification
• Inspection and re-verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility Background

10. Italy

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval
• Initial verification
• Inspection and re-verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

11. Poland

• Water Meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR - AMM
• Type approval
• Initial verification
• Inspection and re-verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background
• Utilities
• Water prices and regulation
• Foreign investment in the water and waste sector in Poland
• Private Polish participation

12. Spain

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval
• Initial verification
• Inspection and re-verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

13. Sweden

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval
• Initial verification
• Inspection and re-verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

14. Turkey

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR - AMI
• Type approval
• Inspection and verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

15. United Kingdom

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval
• Initial verification
• Re-verification and inspection
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

16. United States

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual Demand
• Meter Types
• AMR
• National Standards
• Type approval and certification
• Type approval
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

17. Canada

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual Meter Demand
• AMR
• Type approval and verification
• Water payment practices
• Meter market participants
• Conforming meters
• Utility background

18. Mexico

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual Meter Demand
• Meter Types
• AMR
• Type approval and verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

19. Brazil

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval and verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

20. Argentina

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual Demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval and certification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

21. Australia

• Water meters
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Meter types
• Meter regulations
• Initial verification
• Re-verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

22. Japan

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual meter demand
• Market factors
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval and verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background

23. China

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual demand
• Demand growth
• Factors affecting water meter demand
• Macro economic statistics
• Water crisis
• Parallel forecasts
• Meter types and trends
• AMR
• Type approval and verification
• Price
• Meter market participants
• Water sector background
• Municipal water supply infrastructure
• Industrial water supply infrastructure
• New Water Resource Law
• Water supply
• Water sector reform
• Municipal water price
• Foreign investment
• Imported products

24. India

• Water meters
• Residential access to piped water
• Water connections and meter penetration
• Connections in all urban India
• Annual Demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval and verification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background
• The current state of urban water provision
• Pricing of water

25. Russia

• Water meters
• Water meter penetration of dwellings
• Customers
• Annual demand
• Meter types
• AMR
• Type approval and certification
• Meter market participants
• Utility background
• The current water sector in Russia and the CIS
• Foreign water companies involved in Russia
• Russian private water companies

26. Advanced Metering

• AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
• AMI, Advanced Metering Infrastructure
• The origins and history of advanced metering
• AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
• MDMS, Meter Data Management System
• Evolution of metering technology
• Reasons for deploying advanced metering
• Regulatory direction
• Customer benefits
• Customer service
• Economic value
• Costs for AMI
• Meter Reading Technologies
• Handheld meter reading, with or without AMR
• Mobile AMR
• Fixed network AMR
• Means of fixed network communication
• RF, Radio Frequency
• Cellular
• PLC, Power Line Carrier
• Telephone / Internet
• Other means of AMR communication
• Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
• Demand response
• Deployment of AMR
• Electricity, Water or Gas
• Effect of Size
• Leading US AMR Suppliers
• Itron
• CellNet Data Systems, Inc
• Hunt Technologies Inc.
• DCSI, Distribution Control Systems Inc
• Leach Industries
• Echelon Corporation
• Other major AMR vendors
• Major US AMR manufacturers' market shares
• Some Non-US AMR Companies

27. Water meter types

• Positive displacement meters
• Velocity or velocimetric water meters
• Multi jet meters
• Turbine meters
• Woltman meters
• Compound meters
• Electromagnetic meters

28. Type Approval

• Legislation for Measuring Instruments
• Enforcement of Measuring Instrument Legislation - Legal Control
• Type Approval
• Verification and testing
• National Metrology Institutes
• Designated national laboratories
• Accredited laboratories
• Global Metrology Infrastructure
• ILAC
• OIML
• Regional metrology infrastructures
• European infrastructure
• Metrology - EUROMET
• Accreditation - EA
• Legal Metrology - WELMEC
• EU - Legislation for Measuring Instruments
• EU Controlled Measuring Instruments
• EU - MID - Measuring Instruments Directive
• The Producer' s Responsibility
• The Government' s Responsibility
• Market surveillance
• Americas infrastructure
• Metrology - SIM
• Legal Metrology
• Accreditation - IAAC
• Asia Pacific Infrastructure
• Metrology - APMP
• Accreditation - APLAC
• CIS, Central Asia Infrastructure
• COOMET, Cooperation Metrologique for Euro Asia
• African Infrastructure
• SADC
• Metrology - SADCMET
• Accreditation - SADCA
• Legal Metrology - SADCMEL

29. International Standards Bodies

• ISO Standards

30. Methodology and technical notes

• Creation and maintenance of the ABS Metering Database of statistics and market commentary
• Compilation and analysis of official statistics for creation of the installed base and to define the metrics of annual demand and projections
• Market estimation and projections using official statistics and the metrics of annual demand and projections
• Validation with known demand data and industry interviews.
• ABS Metering Database of statistics and market commentary
• Literature search
• Regulators
• Government enquiries
• Metrological Bureaux
• Trade Associations
• Socio / economic studies
• Company reports and presentations
• Statistics
• Sub-metering
• Production statistics
• Import / export statistics
• Industry interviews and discussions
• Analysis
• The stages in modelling the market
• Press
• Demand components
• Growth
• Import and export data

31. Glossary

32. Tables

Table of Tables

• Table 2.1: The installed base of water meters y region and country, 2007
• Table 7.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 8.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 9.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 10.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 11.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 12.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 13.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 14.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 15.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 16.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 17.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 17.2: Billing practices of water utilities
• Table 17.3: Meters Conforming to the Requirements of the IESO Market (Ontario)
• Table 18.1: Meter demand per year Mexico
• Table 19.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 20.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 21.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 21.2: Water utilities in Australia
• Table 22.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 22.2: Volume and prices in Japan 1995 - 1998
• Table 23.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 24.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 24.2: Water connections and meters in the big four cities of India
• Table 25.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 26.1: Approximate installed cost for AMR systems US 2006
• Table 26.2: Comparison of Manual Meter Reading , AMR and AMI
• Table 29.1: Two Main Bodies Which Determine Standards
• Table 29.2: The ISO Standards Pertaining to Water Meters
• Table 31.1: Water meter market - Production, imports exports, demand 2000 $
• Table 31.2: Water meter demand by categ ory of meter, 2005 units
• Table 31.3: Water meter demand forecasts 2005-2010, units
• Table 31.4: Water meter demand forecasts 2005-2010, 2005 $ value
• Table 31.5: Water meter exports of major countries 1997-2002, units
• Table 31.6: Water meter exports of major countries 1997-2002, value
• Table 31.7: Average water meter export price per unit
• Table 31.8: Water meter unit trade, exports from major countries, 2003, 2004, 2005 units (separate Excel database)

Table of Figures

• Figure 2.1: Population of Water Meters and Annual Demand, 2007 by Region
• Figure 3.1: Population of water meters and annual demand, 2006 by region
• Figure 3.2: Percentag e of water connections with meters in CIS countries, 1997 to 2003
• Figure 3.3: Metering penetration in sing le-family houses and apartments connected to the PWS
• Figure 5.1: Population growth and household size in the developed and developing world, 1985 to 2030
• Figure 5.2: Numbers of households by region, 1985 to 2030
• Figure 6.1: Revenue from water meter sales and other activities (electricity meters, g as meters, AMR AMI), 2005
• Figure 6.2: Water meter companies global shares
• Figure 26.1: Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
• Figure 26.2: World AMR Cumulative Installations by Region, 2000 to 2010
• Figure 26.3: Annual US demand for AMR installations in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
• Figure 26.4: Installed base of AMR in the USA in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
• Figure 26.5: Market shares of AMR suppliers in North America, 2007
• Figure 28.1: Regional Metrology Organisations
• Figure 28.2: Member countries of EUR AMET e.V., 2007