Precision Meters (Pty) Ltd
Water in Cape Town

We supply water meters and related services to Government, Municipal, Provincial, Industrial and Residential customers throughout Southern Africa. In addition, we offer training on installation of our products to the above. Our products include specific meters that are NRCS approved.

Order your water meters from South Africa’s fastest growing water meter company with their stocks of NRCS TYPE APPROVED brass or plastic water meters. Training on how to read water meters is provided at our Cape Town & Johannesburg Branches. Measuring and metering of irrigation water will not only improve regulation of agricultural water use in South Africa, it will also boost farmers’ profits. This is according to the Water Research Commission (WRC) which has invested in irrigation water metering research for more than a decade. While irrigation water measuring is still not widespread in South Africa, emerging trends suggest that water meters are becoming increasingly important tools to aid farmers. Bad metering, bad billing, bad water security: Much has been written about the unacceptably high non-revenue water losses suffered by most municipalities.It is common knowledge that there are few water supply authorities that can claim a water loss of less than 30% of their potable water input. It is assumed, with good reason, that one of the primary factors for this incredible water loss is aging reticulation infrastructure. Two primary components of a water reticulation infrastructure are pipework and meters. Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to our future is peak water. We can produce food without oil, but not without water. These users need to determine the best of practice option for each site in an endeavour to be as water efficient as possible and as a consequence result in more effective use and conservation of precious water resources. These involve keeping the irrigated water in the field by distributing it more efficiently and to encourage retention of the soil moisture against evaporation. These recommendations involve changing water usage habits and can be applied both indoors in the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room and outdoors so that water is used more efficiently, thus reducing the overall water consumption. Integral and fundamental to behavioural practices is the incorporation of all or most of the above so as to minimise overall water usage. An important factor in quality water treatment is the use of the correct water meter. Before the introduction of water meters, water users had little or no understanding of the implications of water usage effect to both upstream resources and downstream wastage. Modern pumps make lifting water from one level to another an efficient simple process that can be measured with a high degree of precision using water meters. An example of the ease with which this was accomplished was when employed by a mining company that decided to de-water an old mine that had been allowed to flood for more than 50 years.