Urban dwellers need to pay for water too

To suggest, as many elected representatives have done recently, that water meters should be scrapped displays a serious lack of knowledge of water management.

Those of us involved in the numerous group schemes to provide water to rural areas know we would have gone out of business if we did not have water meters; they act as leak detectors and, as Irish Water has discovered, a very large percentage of water leaks occur inside people’s properties.

That TDs of all parties fail to acknowledge that people on group water schemes have the same difficulty in meeting the challenges of everyday living is both arrogant and insulting.