Group to fight water charges

Water charges will be more vehemently opposed than the household tax and a mass grassroots campaign will be launched on every estate, town and village in the country.

The Association of Combined Residents Associations (ACRA) has said it predicts mass opposition to any attempts to impose a tax on water as householders simply cannot take another burden, following household and a likely property tax.

Malachy Steenson, general secretary of ACRA, said water was already paid for from central taxation.