Our heatwave may be coming to an end. A heatwave is declared in Ireland if there are five consecutive days of temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius. A drought is declared after 15 consecutive days with less than 0.2 millilitres of rain.
Irish Water collects, treats and pumps 1.7 billion litres of water every day. Forty per cent or 680,000 litres is lost through leakage.
Dublin uses a third of the State’s water. Every day the greater Dublin area consumes 572 million litres of water.
The average daily consumption of water used by every person in the State is approximately 133 litres.
Our water supply right now is hanging on a knife-edge.
Irish Water has just begun work on a new 100 million litre reservoir in Saggart
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