How to boil water...

Addle

So fed up of the boil water notice and i'm only in Roscommon at the weekends.
I read it has spread to other parts of the county now.
Why is it taking so long for the council to sort out?
But at least their notices advise us how to boil water...

nice_guy80

Addle wrote: »

So fed up of the boil water notice and i'm only in Roscommon at the weekends.
I read it has spread to other parts of the county now.
Why is it taking so long for the council to sort out?
But at least their notices advise us how to boil water...

overpaid officials not doing their jobs

poor infrastructure

farmers spreading slurry on land then it is washed off with heavy rain

thats it really

Addle

But why is it taking so long to install the UV system?!

zenno

Will they ever get this sorted. You would swear we were living in a third world country.

Addle

I don't know how people with kids and businesses are managing.
I know someone who couldn't come home after surgery for fear of picking up infection.

Hermy

And they want to introduce water charges!!!

smcgiff

Hermy wrote: »

And they want to introduce water charges!!!

Because water provision costs money? STOP making the case for them ! :P

ecowise2

Investment in water has been neglected and deliberately run down in this country for years.

Only when people start dying like they did in Walkerton in Canada a few years ago, will anyone pay attention. Walkerton was like a carbon copy of the way water treatment is still done in Ireland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_Tragedy

Now were going to soon have to pay billions a connected Private company to install, maintain and read their water meters on our own private properties, and then bill us for own public water we already own and pay for through our taxes.

Service did not improve when this was done in the Northern Ireland or the UK. The public just paid more for their own public water and private companies creamed the profits off for themselves.

Thatcher may be dead, but her polices are alive and well in the UK and this country.

Richard

ecowise2 wrote: »

Investment in water has been neglected and deliberately run down in this country for years.

Only when people start dying like they did in Walkerton in Canada a few years ago, will anyone pay attention. Walkerton was like a carbon copy of the way water treatment is still done in Ireland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_Tragedy

Now were going to soon have to pay billions a connected Private company to install, maintain and read their water meters on our own private properties, and then bill us for own public water we already own and pay for through our taxes.

Service did not improve when this was done in the Northern Ireland or the UK. The public just paid more for their own public water and private companies creamed the profits off for themselves.

Thatcher may be dead, but her polices are alive and well in the UK and this country.

Water is only privitised in England and Wales, not in NI or Scotland where it is publicly owned. Indeed in NI, there are currently no seperate water charges and rates (which supposedly include water charge) are generally lower than in England.

There has been a lot of investment in water infrastructure in England in recent years. If people want decent water, they have to be prepared to pay for it.

ecowise2

Richard wrote: »

There has been a lot of investment in water infrastructure in England in recent years. If people want decent water, they have to be prepared to pay for it.

We do pay for it, we were told for years our higher rates of tax were to cover such things, seems the money never went there though after all.

Firstly we own the water, not some private metering company, who's meters we have to buy, pay to install, pay to maintain, and pay to read, while they charge us with the privilege of using our own water. (Soon to be their's by the looks of it)

Richard

ecowise2 wrote: »

Firstly we own the water, not some private metering company, who's meters we have to buy, pay to install, pay to maintain, and pay to read, while they charge us with the privilege of using our own water. (Soon to be their's by the looks of it)

Yeah, but it's treating and supplying the water along with its disposable that is where the cost lies.

ecowise2

Richard wrote: »

Yeah, but it's treating and supplying the water along with its disposable that is where the cost lies.

Funny how we were quite easily able to bear that cost for 90 years until bondholders, developers and SCAMA came along looking for us to pay their private company speculation debts.

So why then put a private profit company water meters at the end of the line to pay the private debts of bondholders when up to 50% of our water leaks out before it even gets there through the mains that have been deliberately underfunded and run down for years ? It smells like another Eircon to anyone used to recognising the golden circles bull shyte spin.

The corrupt golden circle in the country have destroyed every industry they have ever touched, they move like parasites from one to the next bleeding it dry. From our meat industry, to our telecoms, to our manufacturing industry, to our fishing, to our construction industry, to our forestry, now they're moving in to parasite our water.

nice_guy80

ecowise2 wrote: »

Funny how we were quite easily able to bear that cost for 90 years until bondholders, developers and SCAMA came along looking for us to pay their private company speculation debts.

So why then put a private profit company water meters at the end of the line to pay the private debts of bondholders when up to 50% of our water leaks out before it even gets there through the mains that have been deliberately underfunded and run down for years ? It smells like another Eircon to anyone used to recognising the golden circles bull shyte spin.

The corrupt golden circle in the country have destroyed every industry they have ever touched, they move like parasites from one to the next bleeding it dry. From our meat industry, to our telecoms, to our manufacturing industry, to our fishing, to our construction industry, to our forestry, now they're moving in to parasite our water.

check out the starting salaries of the CEOs of Irish Water - and they don't even have a company to run yet!

that is why water charges will not be kept low

Addle

FINALLY! The boil water notice is lifted.

morcheen k

get down to the well with the bucket
when's the 'how to boil an egg' notice starting ?

nice_guy80

can I submit my bill to the council for the extra cost in constantly boiling water in the kettle??

RoscommonTom

nice_guy80 wrote: »

can I submit my bill to the council for the extra cost in constantly boiling water in the kettle??

Your dead right