Towns’ waste water is ‘putting rivers at risk’

Waste water from towns and villages in counties Cork, Donegal, Wicklow, Galway, Clare, Mayo, Waterford, Wexford and Dublin is putting Irish bathing waters and rivers at risk as raw sewage isn’t being removed.

Water coming from 42 towns or villages in these counties isn’t being treated, or else is only being given minimal treatment before being pumped into seas and rivers, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

And, under EU laws, waste water from larger urban areas should be subject to even more attention with primary and secondary (biological) treatment compulsory.