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We have been flagging the danger of Ireland’s over-exposure to river water for years: this clip is 5 years olds.
For years #IrishWater has tried to claim we were wrong.
The latest judgment from the ECJ - and the cancer risk that people have been exposed to - proves we aren’t.
Dublin's 99% reliance on RIVERS for its water is not prudent, not necessary and not international best practice.
#IrishWater has no plan to fix this - in fact, its current strategy will compound it.
Any thoughts @MurphyEoghan, as responsible Minister?
#BoilWaterNotice #rtept
How many km of Ireland’s water mains were replaced last year @IrishWater ?
Hi @IrishWater - given you claim to know what Dublin’s leakage is (in order to try to justify the Shannon pipeline) then why will you not publish it?
You say Dublin’s leakage will be down to 165mld by 2025. We highly doubt that. So, what was it at the end of 2024?
#IrishWater
We’re almost in 2025 yet Irish Water has still not published leakage levels for 2023. They are “under review”.
Why might that be, #IrishWater?
#FixTheLeaks
The people at Irish Water are on a distraction mission again - and @PatKennyNT and the like are helping them.
Not a word from Pat in last week’s cozy interview about this damning new report SLAMMING #IrishWater’s “very concerning” failure to cut leakage.
#FixTheLeaks
International best practice is clear: the only way to significantly reduce water leakage is by doing major mains replacement. “Find and fix” (i.e. just repairing pipe bursts as they happen - the “sticking plaster” approach adopted by #IrishWater) is NOT enough.
#FixTheLeaks
And remember: this is just the leaks from the mains.
It does not include water lost from customer supply pipes (ie the pipes under people’s front gardens etc) or leaks within peoples’ homes (faulty toilets etc).
TOTAL leakage is still around 50%.
Shameful.
#FixTheLeaks
Water lost to leaks in system would fill eight million baths on a daily basis
ALMOST two-fifths of all water to be delivered to Irish homes and businesses in 2022 was lost to leaks in the pipeline a new watchdog report has found.
Sean McCárthaigh
#not1pipe #IrishWater #HowIrelandWorks
2/ need wells - groundwater - for Dublin. Dublin’s gets only 1% of its water from wells: this is absolutely crazy. It is extremely bad practice. Irish Water’s failure to properly look at wells as an alternative for Dublin has been criticised by Ireland’s main groundwater body,
1/ It would be really good for accountability if shows like @PatKennyNT actually challenged #IrishWater’s misleading answers and asked decent questions. For example, today they suggested that the only real alternative to the Shannon pipeline was desalination. This is absurd. We
Shannon pipeline not needed if Dublin water leaks fixed, study claims – The Irish Times
#fixthepipes #irishwater @irishwater irishtimes.com/news/environm…
A huge amount of public money was spent on the original “independent review” by HRW prior to this - the one that we (and many others) engaged in and that was never published.
Our FOI request for the reports produced for that review was refused.
Why?
@rte #irishwater
KennedyAnalysis retweeted
We have been flagging the danger of Ireland’s over-exposure to river water for years: this clip is 5 years olds.
For years #IrishWater has tried to claim we were wrong.
The latest judgment from the ECJ - and the cancer risk that people have been exposed to - proves we aren’t.
Dublin's 99% reliance on RIVERS for its water is not prudent, not necessary and not international best practice.
#IrishWater has no plan to fix this - in fact, its current strategy will compound it.
Any thoughts @MurphyEoghan, as responsible Minister?
#BoilWaterNotice #rtept
Millions of Dubliners have faced major water crises in the last 5 years. Not one was caused by a shortage of water.
Dublin needs new water pipes and diversification (99% of its water comes from risky rivers).
The Shannon pipeline can not fix Dublin’s problems.
@rte
The Cabinet has been sold a pup.
The Shannon pipeline will cost every household in Ireland over EUR3,000 - and it won’t even fix Dublin’s problems.
Mark our words: there will be buyer’s remorse.
#IrishWater #RTE
KennedyAnalysis retweeted
The 3 biggest problems at Dublin’s taps:
- brown water
- dangerous water
- no water
Over a million Dubliners have faced at least one of these issues in the past 5 years
Every one was caused by either: (1) the state of the pipes, or (2) river as the water source.
@rtenews
KennedyAnalysis retweeted
Mat cooper and Ivan Yates also made widely inaccurate comments recently, about the Judicial Review and ABP case I was involved with on Uisce Eireanns Greater Dublin Drainage Sewage Plant off Malahide Road. If he’s a mouthpiece for UI they are feeding him nonsense.
No, @cooper_m I have not “argued against the Shannon water pipeline crossing my husband’s family farm”. Not once.
I have been fighting the Shannon-Dublin pipeline because it is wasteful and WRONG.
Fix Dublin’s leaking pipes for all our sakes.
#BrownIrishWater
@irishdailymail
This is for you @cooper_m and the Daily Mail.
The pipeline would cross a corner of my husband’s family farm - I have never made any secret of that. But that is NOT why I am fighting it, as I told the Joint Committee when I was invited to present the arguments.
#FixThePipes
No, @cooper_m I have not “argued against the Shannon water pipeline crossing my husband’s family farm”. Not once.
I have been fighting the Shannon-Dublin pipeline because it is wasteful and WRONG.
Fix Dublin’s leaking pipes for all our sakes.
#BrownIrishWater
@irishdailymail
