Boiled water notice

NewMan1982

Is their many medium size companies not providing drinking water to staff members during this notice?

Is this a serious question? Could you not just boil your water at home and bring it in a reusable bottle or buy some yourself in a shop?

NewMan1982

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Is this a serious question? Could you not just boil your water at home and bring it in a reusable bottle or buy some yourself in a shop?

Thanks for your reply but you didn’t answer the question.

tiredblondie

I would have thought most if not all companies have water cooler machines??

Mrs OBumble

tiredblondie wrote: »

I would have thought most if not all companies have water cooler machines??

Most of which will be plumbed in, and so cannot be used.

Companies in places on a Biol Watrr Notice should be providing bottled drinking water, or adequate boiling facilities. Scummy ones won't be.

tiredblondie

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Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Most of which will be plumbed in, and so cannot be used.

Companies in places on a Biol Watrr Notice should be providing bottled drinking water, or adequate boiling facilities. Scummy ones won't be.

Fair enough - i've only ever worked in places that use Glenpatrick or the likes so it's the big tumbler bottles....

Drakus

What bothers me about all this is the fact that for 30 years I've had no issues with my water from the tap. Irish Water are operational for a few years and we have this situation, it seems like IW has been a disaster, all round.

Mrs OBumble

Drakus wrote: »

What bothers me about all this is the fact that for 30 years I've had no issues with my water from the tap. Irish Water are operational for a few years and we have this situation, it seems like IW has been a disaster, all round.

You've been lucky.

Galway had its super-calli-fract-tu-listic-crypto-sporid-iousis episode just before I got here, which was well before Irish Water was invented. They've also had a lot of lead-pipe moments. Lots of other places regularly have boil water notices.

IW are cleaning up the mess left by parish-pump politics applied by councils all over the country. It was established because the govt knew this was coming, as the infrastructure became increasingly inadequate.

runawaybishop

NewMan1982 wrote: »

Is their many medium size companies not providing drinking water to staff members during this notice?

Companies must provide drinking water to employees. Sure, short term they may be caught on the hop but it's not acceptable if it goes over a couple of days.

odyssey06

Drakus wrote: »

What bothers me about all this is the fact that for 30 years I've had no issues with my water from the tap. Irish Water are operational for a few years and we have this situation, it seems like IW has been a disaster, all round.

I think there's a chance that in the past these incidents triggered by heavy rain would have flown under the radar...

My company isn't in the boil water zone but if we were I can't see them bringing in bottled water.