Funding NI Water properly should be Minister O'Dowd's top priority so we can build more homes and protect waterways
Around 18 million tonnes of untreated waste water spilled into our rivers, lakes and seas a year in 24,521 separate incidents, according to new estimates from NI Water.
These aren’t things we think about when we rinse away the dishwater, flush the loo or when heavy rains wash all the muck off our streets and fields in our waterways. Whichever way you look at it, Northern Ireland needs thousands of homes as soon as possible. That means new builds and filling the thousands of empty private ones.
I know Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd has competing demands, as he stated, for the funding his department gets.Look what has happened in England. For want of a better word, it’s an absolute sh*tshow, that our own Feargal Sharkey has repeatedly pointed out. “This means we have the lowest rate of internal sewer flooding in the UK while the dis-benefit is that we have higher quantities of wastewater going into our rivers, lakes, and seas.”
Just 36 spills in March are estimated to have tipped 1,593,239 cubic metres of the stuff into our waterways.
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