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Shannon Water for Dublin?

  • 10-08-2020 6:38pm
    #1
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭


    Does it make sense that the state would spend billions piping water from the Shannon to Dublin? Apart from the controversy about costs and fixing the leaks in the system would it not make more sense to make a new urban development area near water and space i.e. Athlone or similar. This would reduce traffic housing shortages etc. etc.

    Solution to Dublin Water Crisis 46 votes

    Yes. Pipe it from the Shannon
    76% 35 votes
    No. Fix leaks drill use existing resources better.
    10% 5 votes
    Create new urban area away from Dublin.
    10% 5 votes
    Something else.
    2% 1 vote


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  • #2
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Yeah the problem with it being like Athlone, is being like Athlone.


  • #3
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Yeah the problem with it being like Athlone, is being like Athlone.


    Well Athlone has the water.


  • #4
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Well Athlone has the water.

    Cut back on showers or live in Athlone... It's a tough one. :pac:


  • #5
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Cut back on showers or live in Athlone... It's a tough one. :pac:


    Dirty in Dublin, anyone?


  • #6
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Well if they do, as a denizen of the wastelands outside the pale, I be taking a pee in the Shannon. :)

    🙈🙉🙊



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  • #7
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    Well if they do, as a denizen of the wastelands outside the pale, I be taking a pee in the Shannon. :)


    Just Dublin taking the piss.


  • #8
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    If anyone has seen the film Brewsters Millions then you know the solution. Tow an iceberg into Dublin Bay.


  • #9
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    If anyone has seen the film Brewsters Millions then you know the solution. Tow an iceberg into Dublin Bay.


    Cool.


  • #10
    Darc19
    Registered Users Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Where did the "billions" suddenly come from.

    Sounds like a fake bs headline from a sh1t rag like the evening hysterical or their British equivalent Irish daily muck.

    The Shannon has excess water. It's relatively clean. Dublin needs water especially when you see how little rain can fall at times which puts strains on the system.

    This is future proofing the water supply and that is to be commended. For too many years, "future proofing" never went past the next election.


  • #11
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    saabsaab wrote: »
    ... would it not make more sense to make a new urban development area near water and space i.e. Athlone or similar. This would reduce traffic housing shortages etc. etc.

    Which do you think would cost more: building a big pipe, or building 'Dublin-on-the-Shannon'?


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  • #12
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    El Tarangu wrote: »
    Which do you think would cost more: building a big pipe, or building 'Dublin-on-the-Shannon'?


    Taking everything into account, over the long term, I'd say the new capital would cost less.


  • #13
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Taking everything into account, over the long term, I'd say the new capital would cost less.

    Not sure that I agree with you; where would all these new jobs come from?


    Using much the same logic, the goverment could cancel the national broadband plan, and tell everyone to move to some town where they do have broadband


  • #14
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    El Tarangu wrote: »
    Not sure that I agree with you; where would all these new jobs come from?


    Using much the same logic, the goverment could cancel the national broadband plan, and tell everyone to move to some town where they do have broadband


    Not talking about moving Dublin as it is there but new development. Easier to spread broadband than to move a basic need like water or open space.


  • #15
    LuasSimon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    Dublin has taken all the jobs and young people from rural Ireland..might as well take the water as well!


  • #16
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,009 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    with the advent of widespread WFH developing a place like Athlone seems a really good idea


  • #17
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Hodors Appletart wrote: »
    with the advent of widespread WFH developing a place like Athlone seems a really good idea


    You would think so but not getting a lot of support on the thread.


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Two or three summers ago we had a prolonged period of hot, dry weather. No rain in Dublin for 6+ weeks.

    Outside my apartment is a large green area which turned brown - aside from three or four little oasis's next to the irish Water manholes where water was visibly leaking and making the grass green and lush.

    I sent pictures into Irish Water but they were too busy doing Bikram yoga because I never got an acknowledgement.

    There is zero point in spending money transporting water from the shannon to Dublin, if its going to leak into the ground on the way or when it arrives.


  • #19
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    From what I gather 50% of Dublins water is being lost!
    The system is unable to cope, little is being done to improve it and will lead to bursts even if Shannon water is pumped there.





    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mains-supply-awash-with-leaks-behind-dublin-water-shortage-1.3561620


  • #20
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,175 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Dublin has taken all the jobs and young people from rural Ireland..might as well take the water as well!

    Probably better than them being taken by the U.K., US or Australia?


  • #21
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    'Pump it from the Shannon' just turn the tap and out it comes.



    It's not going to be that simple at all, legal cases, heritage issues EU and environmental problems. Even if it came the system won't cope without massive further upgrades.


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  • #22
    Darc19
    Registered Users Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    saabsaab wrote: »
    From what I gather 50% of Dublins water is being lost!
    The system is unable to cope, little is being done to improve it and will lead to bursts even if Shannon water is pumped there.





    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mains-supply-awash-with-leaks-behind-dublin-water-shortage-1.3561620

    It's about 45% and includes "unaccounted" usage.

    The best in the world runs about 20% lost/ unaccounted water.

    But if we don't want to pay for it, we can't expect it to get much better


  • #23
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Darc19 wrote: »
    It's about 45% and includes "unaccounted" usage.

    The best in the world runs about 20% lost/ unaccounted water.

    But if we don't want to pay for it, we can't expect it to get much better


    It will only get worse as Dublin expands and the existing system degrades. expect increasing problems every summer.


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