'Hard to trust the water' after living on boil notices for nine years, says Cork woman

Denise Reck is concerned about the dental issues her children are having, because 'they are not getting the fluoride they should be getting'

Denise Reck, a mother of two from Castleredmond, sits at her kitchen table surrounded by bottled water — her family’s only reliable source of drinking water after nearly a decade of ongoing boiled water notices. Picture: Chani Anderson

Denise Reck often wonders if a split-second decision to rinse her niece’s milk bottle with her domestic supply resulted in her becoming ill for a couple of days.

The Midleton woman said the incident sticks in her head among many others during almost nine years of living with boil water notices in her family home.