Uisce Éireann

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?