{"id":194648,"date":"2025-06-18T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194648\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:50:13","slug":"scepticism-over-plan-to-deal-with-nis-water-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194648\/","title":{"rendered":"Scepticism over plan to deal with NI&#8217;s water infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Persistent underfunding of NI Water has led to a shortfall in the wastewater infrastructure, which in turn, is limiting house building and other development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Fiscal Council has produced a report concluding that NI Water&#8217;s current funding model is not fit for purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Barrett suggested the Stormont Executive could look outside the UK and Ireland for a better funding model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that on the island of Ireland there are water systems &#8220;where we just give the water away which is rarely a great idea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In England there&#8217;s a particularly radical form of privatisation which you can argue hasn&#8217;t worked terribly well either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He pointed to water charging in the wider EU where there are a variety of models including metering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In terms of looking to the future there are probably a whole lot of models which work rather seamlessly it&#8217;s just that we&#8217;re closer to the ones that are particularly dysfunctional,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persistent underfunding of NI Water has led to a shortfall in the wastewater infrastructure, which in turn, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-194648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114704929619697498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}