Uisce Éireann should have 'better ambition' about keeping sewage from watercourses

Members of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss with chairwoman Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin on a field trip to Turvey Nature Reserve near Donabate during its deliberations. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews 

A unanimous vote by the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss to recommend urgent action by Uisce Éireann to prevent sewage discharge to watercourses has been welcomed by the Cork Environmental Forum.

Bernadette Connolly, the co-ordinator of Cork Environmental Forum, who represented the Sustainable Water Network (SWAN), said a recommendation on Uisce Éireann by the Citizens' Assembly backed up a “very strong feeling across the sector that this is urgent”.