{"id":658790,"date":"2026-08-27T06:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/658790\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T06:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:38:22","slug":"water-restrictions-should-apply-equally-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/658790\/","title":{"rendered":"Water restrictions should apply equally \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/uisce-eireann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/uisce-eireann\/\">Uisce \u00c9ireann<\/a> has announced an extension of the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/08\/24\/hosepipe-ban-extended-to-end-of-september-in-much-of-munster-and-leinster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/08\/24\/hosepipe-ban-extended-to-end-of-september-in-much-of-munster-and-leinster\/\">hosepipe ban<\/a> and 13 counties will be affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Since the previous ban was announced car washes have been in constant operation, football, golf and other playing fields are being watered and any amount of water is regularly leaking down the roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Surely water restrictions should apply equally?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">I see no need for water to be wasted on car washing or on sports fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Also, in view of ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/climate-change\/\">climate change<\/a> resulting in flooding last winter\/spring and current drought conditions, perhaps the Government and Uisce \u00c9ireann should address the urgent requirement for more raw water storage capacity and additional water treatment facilities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The long proposed but as yet undelivered plan to pump water from the Shannon will, if it ever happens, be insufficient to meet the ever increasing domestic, commercial and industrial requirements and, of course, ongoing climate change surprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Provision of additional reservoir(s) is a matter that can be very easily delivered by Government using State lands and existing financial and engineering resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">I look forward to a proactive, engaged and concerned Government making an early announcement. \u2013 Yours, etc, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">HUGH PIERCE,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Celbridge,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Kildare. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Uisce \u00c9ireann has announced an extension of the existing hosepipe ban and 13 counties will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[269],"tags":[442,18,440,19,17,133,40299,446,1102],"class_list":["post-658790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-eire","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-shannon","tag-uisce-eireann","tag-weather-events"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117166100028875779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}