metering homes and businesses will only quantify the amount of water being wasted from leakage in the mains, it will give no information on where the leaks are unless there are meters at the branches along the mains back to the reservoirs.
THe govt should have installed a grey main alongside the blue main in the building boom and while replacing mains install a grey main so untreated water can be supplied for those high usage items where flouridated, chlorinated potable water just isn’t necessary.
Also a co.co worker wrote a letter to the irish times during the week stating that the Dublin area had only a 2% margin in treatment capacity. This shows complete incompetence by the national and local governments. What organisations would be uniquely knowledgeable about the extra housing and business needs in their area? they give planning permission to these new developments…….
The same council worker threw in the strawman argument about a dry summer causing water shortages even though the current shortages in the Dublin area are because the output of the treatment plants are not able to supply demand; not because the input to the treatment plants are unable to meet demand.
He was quoted again claiming that most of the leaks in the mains supply was likely to be between the likely meter location and the household/business.