Private water supplies serving around 5,500 people were found to contain E. coli last year, the EPA has warned.
The report warns that private water supplies have not improved in recent years and remain of poorer quality than public supplies.The EPA is warning that “urgent action” is now needed to improve private drinking water quality in Ireland.
He said a recent Government review found that access to funding varies across local authorities – and warned that any community that has water quality issues must have access to that funding. “We'll be calling on, for a lot of people who have their own well, if they're serving the public, to get it registered with the local authority.
“It's a legal obligation for the local authority to maintain a register, but it's not a legal obligation for a supplier to register – but they should do, because it's the right thing to do,” he said.
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