Plea for action on Aran Islands water shortage

Water chiefs are facing calls to tap into a massive hidden network of underground rivers off the west coast in a bid to solve worsening droughts on the Aran Islands.

Plea for action on Aran Islands water shortage

Water chiefs are facing calls to tap into a massive hidden network of underground rivers off the west coast in a bid to solve worsening droughts on the Aran Islands.

Geologists are urging Irish Water to run new electric and sound wave surveys to track the systems – some as long as 48 kilometres and 20 metres wide – which flow out north of Clare under the seabed.

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