Watchdog pursue Irish Water and councils over supply issues

Irish Water, along with county councils in Kerry and Donegal, have been served with legal proceedings by the Environmental Protection Agency over substandard water supplies.

An examination of Letterkenny’s regional public water supply by the EPA led to concerns over the treatment of water for cryptosporidium as well as excessive levels of trihalomethanes.

In Tralee, meanwhile, a housing estate in Kerry’s county town, shows 4.5 times the permitted level of lead contamination in supply pipes.