Smart Water Meters

1. What Are Smart Water Meters?
2. Cities with Opt-Outs
3. What to Do If Your City Is Installing or Has Installed Smart Water Meters
1. What to Do
2. Michigan Cities That Have Shut Off Service for Smart Water Meter Refusal
4. What to Do If Your City Hasn’t Installed Them Yet

 

What Are Smart Water Meters?

Many cities across Michigan are installing or have installed smart water meters, and like smart electric meters, smart water meters are making many people ill. Smart water meters are almost always located inside the home, filling the home with nearly continuous radiofrequency emissions. For instance, one man in Inkster had his blood-sugar and blood pressure levels skyrocket after the smart water meter was installed. He wasn’t aware of the installation, and neither he nor his doctor could understand why his levels had suddenly changed so dramatically. Months later, he learned about smart meters, and his doctor told him this was a likely cause of the sudden changes.

Smart water meters, like smart electric meters, are continuously broadcasting RF waves. For example, the Neptune E-coder R900i transmits data to the utility every 14 seconds! Why, we might ask, does anyone—individual, government, or business—need to know 14-second water-usage intervals? It seems to be another case of “just because we can collect it, we will.” This meter has been installed in Romulus and other Michigan cities. See a YouTube video of smart water meter transmissions.

The meters use frequency-hopping spectrums, which further harm health. Ninety-six days of historical data can be retrieved directly from the meter and then downloaded.

The Neptune meter can force water-use restrictions by day on individual customers .

 

Cities with Opt-Outs

• Birmingham: Residents who wish to opt out will receive the same smart meter as others, but it will not be hooked up to a transmitter.  Instead a touch-pad will be installed on the outside of the house and read with a touch-reader. A quarterly fee of $12.02 will be charged to cover the cost of a manual meter read.
• Royal Oak

Types of smart water meters:
Neptune E-900: Being installed in Romulus, . . .

 

What to Do If Your City Is Installing or
Has Installed Smart Water Meters

What to Do
Note that water utilities are almost always municipally owned. This often makes things more difficult, but can also make them easier. The best thing to start with: Talking to your water department and city council members. Educate them, and if the meters are affecting your health, explain that. Note that some cities are offering opt-outs.

The following information was compiled by an attorney (not the attorney that members of SMEN have used to appeal the DTE opt-out program).

• You can get the public media involved.  Tell the water dept. that you will be sending a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and to local TV stations.
• Contact your local mayor and state governor requesting that they instruct the water dept. to not turn your water off until some type of resolution can be established within a reasonable time.
• Contact your public service commission requesting a delay in installation until some type of opt-out plan can be established.
• Have a policeman at your home when the installers arrive and inform them that they cannot enter your property without committing trespass.  The police office will be a witness and enforce your command for them to vacate the premises.
• You can file a complaint in circuit court seeking an injunction to forbid the water dept. from installing a smart water meter.  Claims would be based on the violation of your constitutional rights (both state and federal): right to due process of law and liberty in bodily integrity under the 14th  Amendment, right to be free from unreasonable search under the 4th Amendment, and right to be free from government taking without just compensation under the 5th Amendment.  I have heard of some people filing claims in small claims court with some success.  But circuit court is your best option here.
• Once the water is turned off, the following remedies are available:
• Send a letter to your water dept. requesting the immediate commencement of water flow to your residence.
• File a complaint with your public service commission.
• File a complaint with the attorney general's office.
• File a complaint in circuit court seeking an injunction and requesting that the water dept. re-establish water flow.  You have been a faithful customer.  You have not been delinquent in your payments and there are no monies owing to the water dept. 

Below are reports of incidents where a customer has lost service due to refusal of smart meter installation. In most cases, service has been restored.

• http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/4687313-74/meters-smart-borough#axzz2f0LB6Opj
• Madison Water Utility customer pays monthly charge of $7.78 for a quarterly manual meter reading.
• http://watchdog.org/94714/in-wisconsin-town-you-get-the-smart-meter-or-they-shut-you-down/ Wisconsin Public Service Commission directs city to restart water.
• http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/21/ohio-sheriff-in-smart-meter-story-that-led-to-one-womans-power-being-cut-tells-us-his-side-it-could-have-ended-differently / Ohio governor's office involved.
• http://watchdog.org/95223/great-grandmas-water-back-on-smart-meter-policy-could-change / Public Service Commission orders city to turn water back on.
• http://www.wiscnews.com/news/local/article_9cbaa0ee-e9e1-11e2-bf6e-0019bb2963f4.html
• http://www.takebackyourpower.net/news/2013/02/24/smart-water-meters-installed-where-have-the-birds-gone/
• http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/PG-E-SmartMeter-draws-customer-rebellion-2407966.php
• http://www.infowars.com/smart-meter-or-no-power-at-all-nevada-energy-sends-armed-men-to-disconnect-power-just-for-opting-out/

 

Michigan Cities That Have Shut Off Service for Smart Water Meter Refusal
(This list is not comprehensive.)

• Warren

 

What to Do If Your City Hasn’t Yet Installed
Smart Water Meters

Educate your city council members and your water department. Start with a soft touch. Inform them that some Michigan cities offer opt-outs. If you are electrosensitive, tell them that, and explain it.

 

 

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