Is it reasonable for the water company to force the installation of new water meters?

The tap water in our town used to be privately contracted, but now it has been bought by the government, and the water meter has been forcibly changed to 450. There is no justice. Hydropower is a commodity, and we are consumers. There is no obligation to bear such expenses at all. Pit dad. I-I looked it up online, and this kind of water meter is easy to buy for forty or fifty yuan.