Taxpayer losing out repeatedly as State tries to invest in water

“Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people” —Mikhail Gorbachev”

Ireland has the highest availability of water in Europe. Yet various governments have not bothered to take measures to preserve this natural resource. Dublin, despite its growth in population, has had no new reservoirs since the 1960s.

Up to this year, local city and county councils were in charge of upgrading the country’s water and sewerage systems with the EPA in a supervisory role. But much of the upgrading which was advised by the EPA was never carried out. The EPA is a dog with no teeth and didn’t force the local authorities into action.