Almost half of households with septic tanks registered with their local authority before the deadline of Sep 28 to avail of the reduced €5 registration fee.

A CONFERENCE on water metering will be told that a national system needs to be urgently set up whereby all households who use a public water supply voluntarily register their connection with a local authority so they can be charged for their water.

IT takes a resident of Berlin to expose the inordinate level of waste in the supply and use of water in Dublin (Letters, January 19).