“Uisce Eireann dovrebbe essere chiuso” – I consiglieri esprimono serie preoccupazioni sul corpo idrico
https://www.waterford-news.ie/news/uisce-eireann-should-be-shut-down-councillors-voice-serious-concerns-over-water-body_arid-74797.html
di qwerty_1965
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Waterford Council Director of Services, Gabriel Hynes, said local authorities across the county are all facing similar issues with Uisce Eireann.
“This is a national issue and it is an issue that needs to be resolved,” he said.
If they are replaced it should be with another nation wide organisation because the councils completely mismanaged the water infrastructure too. When they were in charge over half the water was lost to leaks. So hopefully this isn’t just a power grab to get water back under the councils remit
No more “jobs for the boys” so the councillors are upset
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And what, replace it with councils who did such an amazing job when they dumped raw sewerage into our rivers and beaches? Uisce Eireann is undoing a century of underinvestment and incompetence. It will take decades before we have a water system matching our electricity system.
In 2018 the leakage rate of water was 46% – almost half the water which we collected, treated and put into pipes for delivery was leaking away before it got to houses or businesses.
By 2023 that had been reduced to 37%, and they’re on track to reduce this to 25% (the European average) by 2030.
The water system under the councils was a complete dysfunctional mess.
They need serious investment are it will make the housing crisis worse.
You’d think Councils would be delighted with Usice Éireann taking control of the infrastructure
One less job for the ever-so-efficient local authorities to do
This how a proper state body works, independent from politics and not having resources and manpower swayed over for a councilor to get re elected.
They are working on the priorities, the impactful areas and impactful work they can do.
Remembering they are doing so on a smaller budget than what should have been and we paid water charges. (Hilarious to me how we’ve taken on other service charges since then with no issues )
They haven’t been able to deliver clean, safe water to tens of thousands of people in parts of South Tipperary for months. Not only is the water not safe to drink it has been shut off for most of the night. As a result people are spending a lot of money buying safe drinking water.
I contacted a local councillor and apparently there is no timeline for this to be resolved. She told me it will most likely be well into 2026 before they even have an update as the treatment plant has completely failed and the reservoir itself is in urgent need of a complete overhaul. The ideal solution is a completely new system but this would cost tens of millions and likely take 10+ years for design, planning and construction. They looked at a “temporary” solution of a pipe connecting the network impacted to a nearby network serving Clonmel but this system in the mountains over Clonmel is already massively over capacity and in a near similar state of disrepair. So they are now looking at what can be done to repair the old treatment plant but they have no confidence that it is repairable and even if it is they have no confidence that it will last any length of time.
That’s just one system in one area looked after by Uisce Eireann. Nationwide our water supply network is largely 50+ years old and held together with decades of patches and temporary repairs.
Anyone want to bet on how long it would take for councillors to be complaining about IW diggin up people’s backyards if they got their way and IW changed their policy? I’d give it a week
Dismantle the local councils????
Councillors haven’t a clue. Irish water has actually been doing what it was supposed to be doing