Back in early 2013, there was a lot of publicity about the number of homes that might have lead in their water supply. As part of the water metering project – Irish Water checked for the presence of lead piping going into in homes and identified about 26,000 homes where lead pipes are present. (The […]
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Water charges have been here for over a year now – they started from January 2015. The very first Irish Water bills went out in April 2015. It looks like there are significant numbers of people who have not paid any of their water charges – about 40% of people have paid nothing at all. […]
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The water charges that were agreed by the CER in October were all revised by the Government on Nov 19th. Bowing to public pressure they made several changes – the main one being that there are now just two levels of “assessed charges” – €160 for single adults and €260 for multiple adults. Also – […]
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Updated November 2014 : In some parts of Ireland there are places where the public water supply has to be boiled before drinking because of the presence of dangerous bacteria. In County Roscommon for example , some towns have had to boil their tap water for many months because of cryptosporidium. Galway City residents couldn’t […]
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Irish Water are gradually installing water meters for about 1 million properties. There have been protests in some areas but generally the installations seem to be going to plan It will be 2017 before all the planned installations are complete – and there are likely to be about 300,000 properties (mainly apartments) that are never […]
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