Tap water in North Dublin is appalling. I changed this filter last Monday and look at all the residue building up already. Imagine what’s inside it…

Tap water in North Dublin is appalling. I changed this filter last Monday and look at all the residue building up already. Imagine what’s inside it… from ireland

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  2. It’s a little bit of sediment. Nothing to lose the head over. If you think that’s bad, wait till you see what’s in the air you breath.

  5. That’s not appalling water quality. Your filter caught some suspended particles, maybe there are works being carried out locally or maybe it’s your own pipes flaking. By all means, report it to Irish Water, but this is very minor as water quality issues go.

  10. While it does look like sediment worth reporting, North Dublin water IS appalling nonetheless. Water in the north part of Dublin has between 3-6 times (150-300ppm) more dissolved solids than central and south Dublin. This puts it solidly in the “hard” to “extremely hard”, while most of Dublin is fairly normal.

    I’ve lived in a lot of places, but I wouldn’t have thought Dublin would be the place I’d have to worry about boil notices and contemplate getting a water softener for basic day to day use. The overall lack of quality is shocking.

  11. There was some issues in our area (and as it turned out, our driveway with 60 year old gunbarrel pipes) so we were getting water with bits in.

    We stuck an undersink filter in the kitchen. The kit was cheap enough and only took about 20 min to put in. Absolute life saver and really improved the taste of the water as well.

  12. I feel your pain. They changed kildares water source from Poulaphouca to the barrow a while back and the fucking smell of chlorine off the water makes it undrinkable. We used never buy bottled water but now we use the Britta and supplement with the large bottles of water from Aldi/Lidl

  14. Beat in mind that 10 years ago the Govt of the day tried to charge €100 a year for a reliable, safe water system – like what happens in most European countries – and there were literally riots in the streets.

  16. I bought a house with its own well and I was amazed with the difference in water quality. It’s really nice to drink and I have absolutely zero residue in my kettle or my appliances. Some of that build up can be natural (limescale can be quite significant in some parts of the country for example), but there’s also the various treatments that contribute to those things. Not saying they’re bad necessarily, I’m not an anti-fluoride nut or anything like that, but I’d find it hard to go back to tap water again that’s for sure.

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