Cork City's dirty water problem to persist well into the summer

Cork’s dirty water crisis is set to persist well into the summer, with another €1.6m being spent on the city’s new €40m water treatment plant in a bid to tackle the problem.

Uisce Éireann said it hoped the introduction of a new water conditioning process at the near three-year-old Lee Road water treatment plant would reduce the incidents of discolouration which have plagued the supply since the plant was commissioned in summer 2022.

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