US documentary team claims Irish people pay 10 times more for water

An award-winning American documentary team, which is making a film on the anti-water charges campaign in this country, asserts that Irish citizens are paying “10 times more for water than the average American”.

US documentary team claims Irish people pay 10 times more for water

Earlier this month, the OECD reported that water charges in this jurisdiction are among the lowest in the world. The erroneous claim is one of a number of controversial statements the production company makes on a crowd funding website where it hopes to raise $15,000 to fund the production.

It also asserts that in Ireland “with these additional costs [for water] whispers of scandal have also been echoing through the country. Money that was supposed to go towards Ireland’s decaying water infrastructure is unaccounted for, tax dollars from citizens seem to have disappeared”.

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