Slaney water project marks a year of progress

The collaborative water-quality project launched by Tirlán has seen growing numbers of farm families taking science-based actions on their farms and in the community to improve water quality and enhance biodiversity

Pictured on Martin Davin's family farm are Tirlán’s Bryan Harte with Tirlán supplier Martin Davin and Tirlán’s farm sustainability advisers Róisin McManus, Aidan O’Donovan and Sean Martyn.

A founding father of the United States would surely have approved of a collaborative water-quality project launched by Tirlán, the Kilkenny-based dairy co-operative.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), a scientist, inventor and statesman, once wrote: “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”