The boil water notice affecting hundreds of thousands of people remains in place today, and Irish Water is now saying that there could be many more such notices in the coming months.
Bumbling representatives from the utility confirmed that rain had washed in large quantities of ‘organic’ matter into reservoirs, causing contamination.
Irish Water bosses say that the aging Leixlip plant at the center of the controversy is likely to fail over and over, potentially extending the boil water notice indefinitely.
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