Uisce Éireann fixes over 1,500 leaks every month

The River Liffey supplies 80 per cent of drinking water for the greater Dublin area. Few other capital cities of similar size are so reliant on a single source. Plans afoot to source water for the greater Dublin area from the Shannon.

Uisce Éireann formerly, known as Irish Water, fixes over 1,500 leaks every month over a network of 63,000 kilometres of pipes.

The State owned company has reduced leakage rates across the network from almost 46 per cent in 2018 to 38 per cent at the end of 2021. It is aiming for a national leakage rate of 25 per cent nationally and below 20 per cent in Dublin by 2030.