EPA wastewater report: A needless stain on our character

THE Environmental Protection Agency yesterday published a third damning report in a matter of weeks on abused water resources.

The publication focused on how, in 2017, wastewater treatment facilities in 50 of Ireland’s 185 — almost one in three — large towns or cities do not reach EU standards. Raw sewage is discharged at 44 urban locations.

Cork and Donegal alone account for nearly half of those examples of medieval infrastructure.