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IRISH WATER HAS appealed for people to conserve water as restrictions were set to take effect for a third night this evening from 8pm, until 6am tomorrow morning.
On Monday, it said that the demand for drinking water across the Dublin region outstripped supply by 28 million litres. This equates to the average daily usage of the population of Cork city.
Irish Water also said that “the restrictions over the past two nights have resulted in some improvement but we have a way to go”.
It had this advice for people during the restrictions:
After restrictions yesterday, the utility said that demand had significantly reduced due to the shutting off of running taps and broken pipes within premises.
However, leaks on the network are still a major cause for concern. Irish Water said the leaks “will require a sustained programme of work over weeks and months to reach pre-Storm Emma levels, which were themselves too high, and we are working to reduce”.
In Dublin the condition of the pipes where the average age is 80 years, significant leakage and increased demand has resulted in the need to reduce pressure overnight in a bid to allow reservoirs to fill and avoid daytime outages that would have a huge impact on homes, schools and business.
It said it hopes to moderate the water restrictions as the situation improves.
“Concerning” reports from areas such as Rathmines, Rathgar and Milltown came in on Tuesday night and Irish Water said that persistent problems with water supply in these parts “suggests there are significant leaks”.
Detection and repair crews have been dispatched to these areas “as a matter of urgency”.
Furthermore, areas such as Ballyboden and Mount Venus Road were also without water and Irish Water said it would work with local authorities to arrange an alternative water supply if the situation doesn’t improve there.
The utility added that 16,000 people outside Dublin remain without water, while 37,000 are on restricted supply. Tipperary also remains badly affected, with 12,000 without water, with further outages in Galway, Leitrim and Wexford.
Full supply has been restored however, in Westmeath, Laois, Longford, Kildare and Donegal.
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Didn’t they only say just last week that we were doing fantastically well?
Cut the ESRI altogether….that should save a good few bob !!!!!!!!
Yeah, if we get rid of all the people saying we need to close the gap between governent spending and revenue then maybe it’ll all just go away.
The ESRI do not exactly have a credible record as economic advisors.
Yes if we cut the ERSI from the public purse maybe they might start getting it right in the world of sink or swim.
Yes daniel they did but that was last week :-)
its only an extra 400 million say it fast doesn’t sound much …
Down with that sorta thing
Careful now
How can u cut more and more and expect growth ,, it just doesnt make sense
What do you want us to do, follow the examples of Germany and Holland, who are still performing reasonably well and have low debt.
FG/FF will never do that, and their excellent track record of only bankrupting the state 4 times in 90 years is proof of that.
Absolutely nothing is being done at the moment for the domestic economy, indeed August has been the worst month to date for company insolvencies. The SME’s, the domestic economy are dying, but then again they are only with the rest of the little people and are well below the concern of FG/FF. Always have been, always will be.
What kind of salaries are ESRI academics on? Wasn’t it one of the cheerleaders of a ‘soft landing’? More calls for a tow from the Titanic.
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