Shannon water for Dublin

The worst case scenario is the largest lake in the state will drop a bit lower, we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here for reasons to oppose the pipeline.

No need to apologise, I understood what you meant. The lake will be feeding downstream and the pipeline, that's why it might drop a bit. The sheer volume of water held in it would handle any possible drought.

Nail on the head there - state agencies continue to be some of the biggest environmental criminals in the country!!

Just posting a picture that was also in the former thread. The beneficial zone is huge.

This thread has some great talk about abstraction numbers in detail, the last thread was a joke.

Considering each turbine in Ardnacrusha can do 100m3/s this really adds context to the 4m/s figure.

Spare me. This project is not for the benefit of Leinster.

Those towns along the way can and are provisioning their own water cheaper than this proposal.

Between this and the renewable energy threads it is obvious that most of the advocating is being done by those who directly benefit or are related to those who benefit. We have had posters let slip that they are commissioning projects on to the grid

There is no balance on these threads. People are pushing an agenda.

I support you in advocating for an unspoiled rural Ireland. However, this is the wrong issue.

If you want to advocate for an unspoiled rural Ireland, you need to take the following steps, one after the other:

(1) Ban all one-off housing outside of urban centres

(2) Ban all development in rural villages with less than 1,000 inhabitants

(3) Introduce a scheme to incentivise the abandonment of one-off housing (the biggest scourge on the landscape) with people encouraged to move to urban centres with at least 1,000 inhabitants.

(4) The final step is to curtail all services to one-off housing - electricity, broadband etc. - thus removing unsightly poles from the landscape.

Only then will you have a truly unspoiled rural Ireland with the human element removed.

Now, no politician will advocate for the above, but if you really believe in it, off you go.

Whataboutery. Anyone build in the floodplain of the Shannon gets what they deserve. The clan names are local to parishes and your facile suggestions equate to ethnic cleansing from the domains in which those people have existed for centuries. You have drinking the cool if from the Green Party who style themselves environmentalists for too long.

So let's be clear based on your taunting…you are a troll shilling for those who will gain from exploitation of the Shannon. Isn't that a fair conclusion to arrive at?

That looked to be solely for the purpose of supplying Athlone as 9m gallons per day is nowhere near the current proposal. But it goes to show the locals are so militant they don't even want to supply themselves!

To answer the question (again), the creation of Ardnacrusha formed the biggest reservoir (parteen/Derg/everything above it) already so putting the pipe there maybe makes a bit of sense in terms of most reserves.

Don't bother, they're clearly just a troll who have offered nothing to the discussion.