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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.

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

@gusrock @PatKennyNT Correct

@KennedyAnalysis @PatKennyNT So basically they want to suck water from the Shannon, costing billions, and still run it through Dublins leaking pipes?

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

3/ and is utterly illogical (unless you have a particular reason for wanting to build a multi-billion-euro cross-country mega-pipe) Yet it was not even raised in today’s cozy interview. This is NOT scrutiny, it is NOT accountability. It is simply free PR for Irish Water.

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/environme…

@IrishWater The reason we have endless water outages in Ireland: burst pipes. The reason we have burst pipes: #IrishWater only replaces 0.2% a year. At that rate it will be another 500 years before some pipes are even touched. This is a joke. London replaces up to 3% a year #FixThePipes

Water supply restoration for Malahide, Portmarnock, and surrounding areas is underway following main burst. The estimated restoration time is 7pm today. It may take a number of hours after this for normal supply to return to all customers. Stay updated at wtr.ie/185xi9.

@IrishWater This is what happens when instead of fixing the pipe network (the main cause of outages) you focus most of your attention on a EUR6bn cross-country pipeline that has no hope of fixing the problems. Ten Shannon pipelines would not stop the pipes themselves bursting. #FixThePipes

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

@fogartyc64 @Nenaghman A huge amount of public money was spent on the original “independent review” by HRW prior to this date - 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? What did they say?

cru.ie/publications/2… @Nenaghman @KennedyAnalysis

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.

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

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