The Cabinet has approved new legislation that will allow the development of the controversial €1.3 billion pipeline that will extract water from the River Shannon to meet Dublin’s water needs. Specifically, it will allow the massive Shannon pipeline to proceed. This project, backed by Irish Water, proposes to use water from the Shannon to supply water to the capital, and to urban areas in the East and Midlands. Water supplies in the capital are already at critically low levels. With the population of Dublin projected to rise by 600,000 before 2040, this massive project proposes to extract 330 million litres of water from the River Shannon and pipe it to Dublin.

Source: The Irish Times December 18, 2019 00:56 UTC