The consumption rate is about 5,000 acres per year.

Conspicuous consumption can hurt your business especially when it's known that you can't afford it.

This device monitors usage, so it would (should) recognize the large spike in consumption that a main break would create. 

We still offer our student tenants the convenience of having a single payee for rent and utilities, but use a separate utilities agreement whereby the tenants prepay an amount into a Utilities Budget each month and are given copies of all utility bills so they can monitor their consumption.  

With the hair salon and the large family, it seems only fair that they would pay a larger percentage of the water bill based on assumed consumption versus the single person living in the efficiency... ie, have the salon pay 25% of the bill, 3BR 20%, other commercial 25%, and each efficiency 10%?

If the panel has the breakers labeled, you might be able to turn it off and curb the power consumption right away.

A home for your own personal consumption isn't an investment, but if you had the opportunity to build equity that you or your heirs could tap into down the road, wouldn't you want to?

The mindless consumption of formal education, will keep you on target with the masses.

Consumption rate is about 5,000 acres/year.

Funds used in those purchases will eventually run dry, completion and supply will exceed consumption and the market will correct.