Meeting to discuss quality of rivers and lakes

A NATIONAL conference, the first of its type held in Ireland, opens in Cork today to address the quality of our lakes and rivers.

More than 100 delegates are set to attend and will be told that Ireland needs to draw up and implement policies which will ensure that all our natural waters achieve high EU purity standard by 2015.

Sean Ó Breasail, who is district co-ordinator for one of the seven regional taskforces formed to address the issue, said that difficulties such as “diffuse pollution” would have to be tackled.