Council moves to ease water bug fears

SENIOR management at Kerry County Council has moved to ease fears of large-scale water contamination in the county.

The council has admitted almost 40% of treatment plants are at risk of being hit by cryptosporidium — the bug that led to more than 40 people being hospitalised in Galway last year.

However, the situation in Kerry was not the same as Galway, according to Kerry’s director of water services, Oliver Ring.