Water

Posted on Tuesday 6 May 2014 | 4 Comments

I have written to Waterways Ireland to ask how it proposes to stop the citizenry from stealing the water it supplies to harbours.

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4 responses to “Water”

  1. David Davis (@feline_one) | Tuesday 6 May 2014 at 13:28 |

    Perhaps they’ll lace it with Leptospira bacteria, causing the thieves to develop Weil’s Disease and die. That’ll learn ’em! :-D

  2. bjg | Tuesday 6 May 2014 at 13:44 |

    Leptospirosis can be spread by contact without drinking the water. However, it is possible that water supplies on the upper reaches of the Shannon Navigation, and on Lough Key, may be contaminated with cryptosporidium: Waterways Ireland confirmed in Marine Notice 39/14 [which does not seem to be available on its website] that the “Boil water” notice issued last year by Roscommon County Council is still in force.

    Some of the area to which it applies is known as the Boyle Waters. bjg

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  4. David Davis (@feline_one) | Wednesday 7 May 2014 at 12:31 |

    Ah, cryptosporidium. There was an outbreak of that in Belfast a while back – turns out some rather cavalier builder had connected the output of his client’s septic tank to the city’s main drinking water supply. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1296158.stm

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