Posted by xrayarx 7 days ago
Turns out climate change means you end up with a lot of rain in a short time followed with long periods of draught. Not a single Northern European country is equipped for this situation.
You have to start building reservoirs up the wazoo.
Another news article recently made a huge story, that we're running out of sand. I wonder what will be next.
Water is a human right, not a commodity.
That is not what happened. The government simply introduced plans to charge for water usage. As you say, there was a backlash, albeit only from certain sectors of society. While it did cause the authorities to shelve the charges, it's not correct to say that "everyone" was destroying the new meters; as I recall, there was very little vandalism.
The result of this mob rule is that, like Britain, we have been left with an underfunded, ageing, leaky water network that is essentially incapable of supporting further expansion.
For example 0-4 residents have an annual allowance of 213,000 liters. Anything above that is charged at €1.85 per 1000 liters.
Note : The average amount of water used by a household in Ireland is 125,000 litres per year
These are majority unmetered at the household level so it's not clear to me at least how it's measured.
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/water-and-coas...