Ordinary citizen will pay to safeguard Irish water

Irish Water announced that 400 jobs would be created during the installation of water meters over the next three years.

Minister Phil Hogan has declared ‘war’ on dirty, domestic septic tanks. These strategic initiatives are to protect Irish water. The dangers are clear: a few cattle carcasses lost by hard-pressed Irish farmers polluted surface water in Roscommon, and cost €300,000 to clean up.

We don’t have enough water anyway — Lough Derg will be tapped to supply Dublin. The ordinary citizen will pay to safeguard Ireland’s public water supplies. What are businesses being asked to contribute? The elephant in the room is ‘where will the millions of gallons of fracking water come from’?