Irish Water urged to give details of chemicals in supply

An environmental group has called on Irish Water to publish, on customers’ bills, a breakdown of chemicals present in its water supply.

Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] pointed out Irish Water and the Environmental Protection Agency had already admitted high levels of trihalomethanes is piped to homes of 10% of the population.

In some cases the level of the toxin is up to three times the figure considered safe by the World Health Organisation.