Galway firms to foot water bill despite Roche promise

BUSINESSES in Galway face a bill of about €1 million in water charges for the five months during which the supply was infected with cryptosporidium.

This despite a promise by ormer environment minister Dick Roche to waive all, or part of, the fees while the water was undrinkable.

But the amendment to the Water Services Bill, which was promised when the crisis first broke, failed to make it through the Dáil before it was dissolved in May.