Apartments’ water supply contaminated by copper

ANOTHER contamination scare has hit Irish households as Environment Minister Dick Roche tried to allay concerns over water pollution.

While 90,000 people in Galway remain at risk from the cryptosporidium parasite, residents in a new housing development in Dublin have been warned to boil all drinking water after tests showed it contained twice the legal limit for copper.

It comes after claims that the health of 30,000 residents in the Clare region are also at risk, with reports of other water restrictions highlighted in the midlands.