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water policies of saudi arabia are straight up insane. riyadh takes half of water from seashore desalination plants (that burn massive amounts of oil, so big that it cuts into their oil revenue very significantly). for the other half, they have somehow found non-renewable water, literal fossil water, and it'll run out in decade (might have misremembered). at the same time there are no water meters in the city at all
Apparently Ireland hasn't billed for water either, and the prospect of the introduction of billing had activists objecting on grounds like "you can't charge for water, water is life-critical and a human right". I remember reading comments on /r/Europe from Irish readers who were really upset at the prospect of needing to pay for water.
googles
It looks like as implemented, billing is only for households that use substantially more than the average and start going out late this year:
https://www.moneyguideireland.com/water-charges-2017-new-rules.html
ireland has less issues with potable water supply i suspect
also unrelated but why are you googling loudly
You've missed the point that the government had relatively recently introduced a 'temporary' Universal Service Charge during the recession and had not (and have not to this day) removed it. I was in favour of metering water but the argument wasn't as simplistic as you're making it.
Ireland being a low density country with an inundation of fresh water rain and springs is certainly worth mentioning when comparing with Saudi Arabia though...