Cork residents grow weary of water issues as council meeting with Uisce Éireann looms 

an unreliable water supply is forcing some to spend hundreds, if not thousands on bottled water each year
Cork residents grow weary of water issues as council meeting with Uisce Éireann looms 

Denise Reck, a mother of two from Castleredmond, Midleton, sits at her kitchen table surrounded by bottled water — her family’s only reliable source of drinking water. Picture Chani Anderson

Parents constantly worried their baby's bottles aren't clean, a hairdresser who loses whole days of work because she has no water, a baker whose business faces closure because her supply is tinged yellow.

These are just some of the people across the country who have told the Irish Examiner of their water supply woes which impact so much of so many of the public's everyday lives.

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