60 schemes contaminated: Water may be an election issue

As expectations around a pre-Christmas election gather momentum, especially if Brexit is resolved without chaos, it is unlikely that the idea of water charges will be revisited in the short-term. Despite that understandable, if unwise, evasion, issues around a secure water supply remain critical.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned that more than 550,000 Irish Water customers use water at risk of contamination by e.coli or cryptosporidium.