Household water supply

Service lines (pipes), branching from mains pipes, transport water into your home.

A water meter, normally be found in your front or back yard, measures the amount of water used by your household.

The service line into your home branches into smaller pipes, which transport water to each of the taps in your house. One of these branches will go to the hot water service in your home, where the water is heated and then piped to all of the hot water taps.

These small pipes can be found all through your home, under floors and in walls. Wherever you have a tap, there’s a pipe in the wall behind it.

Used water goes down your drains and enters the wastewater network where it flows into the sewerage system.