Water Investment Programmes

As the average household consumes 720 litres of water per day (Source: South Dublin City Council) it is inevitable that significant water losses are incurred.

These problems were indicated in a recent statement from John Gormley who stated that national water losses range from 16.8% to 58.6% (Source: Department of the Environment, January 2010).

Over the last seven years the government spent €140 million for the purposes of water conservation. The scope of the water conservation programme is to implement appropriate water management systems to monitor water consumption and to identify the occurrence of losses throughout the supply networks (Source: John Gormley, January 2010).