WATER CRISIS HITS FLOOD VICTIMS

THE Government has not yet decided if emergency funding will be provided in areas devastated by the worst flooding in living memory, estimated to exceed €100 million in insurance claims.

In Cork city there is mounting concern that water supplies to some 18,000 homes may not be restored for a week.

The authorities have warned of a public health crisis unless precautions are taken by the estimated 80,000 people – almost half the city’s population – still left without water after the city’s main water treatment plant at the Lee Road was swamped in Thursday’s massive floods.