€10m water quality plan

A €10 MILLION programme to improve drinking water quality in Kerry should be completed by the end of next year, Kerry County Council’s director of water services, Oliver Ring, has announced.

Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) highlighted a situation whereby thousands of Kerry people were at risk from substandard drinking water.

Upwards of 55,000 consumers in the Killarney and Tralee areas were at risk because of inadequate treatment for cryptosporidium at the Lough Guitane source, outside Killarney, according to the EPA report.