Public must get value for money - Irish Water

CREDULITY is stretched to the limit by the inordinate length of time it will take beleaguered Irish Water to put the country’s banjaxed water system into something approaching working order. 

While we are told, for instance, that almost half the 1.6 billion litres of water treated every day by local authorities leaks into the ground before a drop reaches a tap, it will take another six years before 11% of that whopping loss is reduced under the company’s draft plan which is now open to public debate.

Incredibly, by 2040, one-fifth of this crucial resource will still be leaking. That amounts, more or less, to a staggering daily loss of 320,000,000 litres from the nation’s supply.