Exhibit 3.7


                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                               HERSEY METERS CO.

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     FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Hersey Meters Co..

     SECOND: The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is
1013 Centre Road, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19805. The
name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

     THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware as the same exists or may hereafter be amended
("Delaware Law").

     FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall
have authority to issue is 100,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per
share.

     FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the incorporator are:


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Carlos Meda                           450 Lexington Avenue
                                      New York, New York 10017

     SIXTH: The Board of Directors shall have the power to adopt, amend or
repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.

     SEVENTH: Election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the
bylaws of the Corporation so provide.

     EIGHTH: (1) A director of the Corporation shall not be liable to the
Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware Law.






     (2)(a) Each person (and the heirs, executors or administrators of such
person) who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or is
involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact
that such person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or is or
was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise,
shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent
permitted by Delaware Law. The right to indemnification conferred in this
ARTICLE EIGHTH shall also include the right to be paid by the Corporation the
expenses incurred in connection with any such proceeding in advance of its
final disposition to the fullest extent authorized by Delaware Law. The right
to indemnification conferred in this ARTICLE EIGHTH shall be a contract right.

     (b) The Corporation may, by action of its Board of Directors, provide
indemnification to such of the officers, employees and agents of the
Corporation to such extent and to such effect as the Board of Directors shall
determine to be appropriate and authorized by Delaware Law.

     (3) The Corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on
behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of
the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss
incurred by such person in any such capacity or arising out of his status as
such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify him
against such liability under Delaware Law.

     (4) The rights and authority conferred in this ARTICLE EIGHTH shall not be
exclusive of any other right which any person may otherwise have or hereafter
acquire.

     (5) Neither the amendment nor repeal of this ARTICLE EIGHTH, nor the
adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or the bylaws of
the Corporation, nor, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware Law, any
modification of law, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this ARTICLE
EIGHTH in respect of any acts or omissions occurring prior to such amendment,
repeal, adoption or modification.

     NINTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend this Certificate of
Incorporation in any manner permitted by Delaware Law and, with the sole
exception of those rights and powers conferred under the above ARTICLE EIGHTH,
all rights and powers conferred herein on stockholders, directors and officers,
if any, are subject to this reserved power.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name this 4th day of August,
1999.


                                            /s/ Carlos Meda
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                                            Carlos Meda, Incorporator


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