Uisce Éireann

Saggart reservoir to Ballymore Eustace pipeline supplies one-third of drinking water to the Greater Dublin area

Technology predicted to help protect people drinking water from private sources including groundwater wells

New approach to have significant implications for farmers as it will allow for revisions to controversial 1945 Arterial Drainage Act

Company asks for extra funds amid industry warnings that water projects inflation is compromising housing delivery

High profile semi States including ESB, DAA, VHI and Bord na Móna have called for greater flexibility on pay to retain talent

The risk is that by the time there is a wider acceptance of the need to move more quickly on vital infrastructure projects, it will be too late

Much of the cost of vital water, transport and energy investment falls to the Irish State, and that means more tax

Those exposed to poor supplies are consuming water with potentially serious health consequences

Families in Cork have had undrinkable, discoloured water coming out of their taps for years

Deterioration in supplies due in the main to sustained problems of hazardous THMs and parasite cryptosporidium

Project estimated to cost up to €6bn ‘critical to securing Ireland’s economic growth and housing needs’ – Uisce Éireann

Project to channel water from river Shannon vital to secure supply, says Uisce Éireann

The applicants secured “leave” of the court to pursue their claims

Water bodies will not improve until urban and agricultural nutrients are reduced, watchdog says

Property Clinic: We have to manually switch our boiler on to heat our home or have a shower

Micheál Martin calls on Uisce Eireann to give customers timeline for fixing problem causing discolouration

Experience in UK and with Eir is that private owners don’t invest in networks but just saddle companies with debt and take dividends

Kells anglers have taken two separate judicial review cases over separate developments approved by An Bord Pleanála

Uisce Éireann to issue explanatory booklets to almost 300,000 people served by supplies with high levels of THMs

Ballymacraven river may never recover from pollution that killed thousands of fish, an incident that highlights an even wider problem as the State’s water treatment infrastructure creaks under growing pressure

Water demand in the region is on a knife edge, making the prospect of tapping into the Shannon the only long-term solution

Water is a key infrastructural requirement and a shortage of it would threaten the capital’s attractiveness to investors. But should fixing our leaky pipe system not be more of a priority than siphoning flow?

Risk from drinking untreated water outweighs any possible risks from long-term exposure to trihalomethanes, HSE says

Chlorine helps ensure safe drinking water, but organic matter can react with the chlorine to form trihalomethanes

Here are the most important stories you need to start your day, including Uisce Éireann ‘taking advice’ on warnings to 220,000 over toxic chemicals

European Court of Justice decision notes affected supplies are ‘by definition, a potential danger to human health’

The Irish water utility has jobs in front-line operations, science and engineering, administration, communications, management and IT

Nearly 240,000 people across Ireland drinking water with elevated toxin levels, latest figures show

Dublin City Council and Bathing Water Taskforce share concerns over potential pollution

Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger in High Court says university’s student accommodation satisfies definition of ‘dwelling’ in 2013 Water Services Act, meaning it should not be charged for water services

Government has not set a date for imposing charges for using excessive amounts of water

Seawalls and sanitation systems constructed in the 19th century have fallen well below the needs of a much larger population

Deterioration of landscape and urban run-off putting heaping strain on river system

Irish waters are awash with our own excrement. Historic underinvestment is blamed, so why are some upgraded plants still pumping out raw sewage?

Uisce Éireann must introduce new investment plan to ‘end pollution of our rivers and coastal waters from wastewater’

Clean Coasts and Uisce Éireann urge public to ‘think before you flush’ in light of increased levels of inappropriate disposal of wipes and sanitary waste

Budget 2024: State water company Uisce Éireann will get €1.6bn next year for the operation, repair and upgrading of the Republic’s supply networks

An Taisce warns bloom is an early warning sign for pollution which hit Lough Neagh

State utility predicts a separate greater Dublin drainage plan may not get permission before 2025

Households asked to conserve water as Met Éireann says hot, sunny weather to continue for most places into the weekend