What is known as the Water Supply Project – Eastern and Midlands Region has been officially costed at between €1.2 billion and €1.3 billion. It became, Ms Kennedy said, a victim of “the politics of promotion of mega-projects” and showed “unfortunately, engineering accomplishments were often marred by economic miscalculation”. Irish Water, Ms Kennedy noted in her report to the committee, is nowhere near meeting its own 2021 leakage target. In April 2018, Irish Water said it was currently replacing about 25km of Dublin’s 9,000km of pipes a year. It is about a thriving first-world city having to rely on third-world water pipes,” she said.

Source: The Irish Times July 16, 2019 00:21 UTC