Fortunately the slums I inhabited always had card meters for electrickery.
Water should just come as a general bill so no worries there you can split that when it arrives.
Best advice I can give you is steer well clear of having your name on anything. Nothing worse than chasing up people when everyone is skint.
Otherwise see if you can just get the lot in everyones name and get equal split direct debits for the totals. If not open up a house account and all set up a direct debit chucking in enough to cover what you think will be the bills and a bit more for a slush fund.
End of term use what's left (if any) for a house piss up.
