Too many public water supplies still lack robust treatment measures to guarantee their long-term resilience and safety, the Environmental Protection Agency has warned, with almost 500,000 people being served by 58 “at-risk” supplies.
The report shows, however, more than 99.7 per cent of public water supplies comply with bacterial and chemical limits, “which means our public water is safe to drink”.
However, the EPA through its inspection and monitoring programme, continues to identify plants at risk and requiring improvements and upgrades. “Uisce Éireann needs to prioritise investment in those plants to improve the resilience of drinking supplies, to provide a safe and secure supply into the future,” he said.
Greater effort is needed by Uisce Éireann to implement improvements at supplies to minimise exposure to THMs, including at major supplies such as Limerick city and the Barrow supply in Kildare, it added.
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