{"id":332157,"date":"2026-07-07T19:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332157\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:04:07","slug":"hialeah-launches-smart-water-meter-pilot-program-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332157\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah launches smart water meter pilot program \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Hialeah on Monday launched a pilot program that uses smart water meters in homes and business.<\/p>\n<p>The plan would install between 175 and 225 ultrasonic meters at no cost to the city to measure water consumption more accurately and detect leaks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You guys have been complaining,&#8221; Calvo said on Monday. &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard your concerns. We&#8217;re making sure that our bills are gonna be accurate here in Hialeah so that everybody&#8217;s paying only for the water that you&#8217;re consuming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pilot program is expected to run for 180 days as the city evaluates whether to expand the smart water system.<\/p>\n<p>For years, water service has been one of the biggest concerns for Hialeah residents, marked by high bills, imprecise meter readings, and constant complaints about the system.<\/p>\n<p>The dissatisfaction even reached the political arena and became a campaign issue, and one of the main promises made by now-Hialeah Mayor Bryan Calvo. In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hialeahfl.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/21230\/Executive-Order-2026-05------Water-Cost-Affordability-Billing-and-System-Review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">he signed an executive order<\/a> for an audit of the Department of Public Works\/Water and Sewer Services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Hialeah on Monday launched a pilot program that uses smart water meters in homes and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-332157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}