Galway water filthy AGAIN!

[alonso]

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhqleyeysnsn/

A boil notice has been put in place in a large area of south Galway as a result of contamination in the local water supply.

The Co Council has issued the alert after finding that a recent sample from the Gort Public Water Supply failed to comply with drinking-water standards.

The local authority is advising all householders and businesses to boil their water before using it and says it is doing everything in its power to rectify the situation.

Similar boil notices are already in place in several parts of the country due to problems caused by recent flooding.

will it ever end?

[eurocrat]

Gort would not have been affected by the water problems last year. As your link states interruptions like this have occured all over the country due to recent flodding.

Not sure what your point is? Should the cyrotopersidium outbreak have made is less likely for flood damage to occur in the county? Or are you just simply putting the words Galway and Water together?

[Wolverine2]

Ennis is ok so far. Mind you, the council has put a ban on any more large scale developments in the town until the water and sewerage systems are upgraded, so "OK" might not be the best choice of word.

It will end when we stop building on flood plains, invest in basic infrastructure and protect our waterways from effluent leaching into them.

[riven]

Water supply around the village of Pallasgreen in Co limerick has a 2 week boil order as well.

[DaveM]

Part of Bray has also been on a boil water notice for about 10 days now due to elevated e-coli levels.

[essexboy]

This is happening all over the Republic but not in the North.

Northern Ireland has the same climate and topography so why don't we hear about their residents being forced to boil water?

[DaveM]

Bad infrastructure is the bottom line. In saying that the water infrastructure is vastly better than it was due to the money spent in the past 15 years but we're still a long way short of where we need to be. Also there has been more of an emphasis on capital spending on wastewater treatment as opposed to water treatment in the past 10 years.

[alonso]

Gort would not have been affected by the water problems last year. As your link states interruptions like this have occured all over the country due to recent flodding.

Not sure what your point is? Should the cyrotopersidium outbreak have made is less likely for flood damage to occur in the county? Or are you just simply putting the words Galway and Water together?

ok it's grand. no nig deal so. Just another pathetic failure of our adminsitration.

[Deep Throat]

keep voting for corrupt gombeen politicians and you'll end up drinking sh!te!

up dev og! etc etc

[C&AG]

Ennis is ok so far. Mind you, the council has put a ban on any more large scale developments in the town until the water and sewerage systems are upgraded, so "OK" might not be the best choice of word.

It will end when we stop building on flood plains, invest in basic infrastructure and protect our waterways from effluent leaching into them.

Is it an issue of upgrading our county towns next like the way Cork, Limerick and Dublin drainage systems were upgraded over the past decade? Ennis has had a serious amount of development impeded because of lack of water infrastructure - the most recent a €50 million development near the bypass. Isn't it time we got developers to fork out for the systems they take for granted?