You may well have seen Uisce Éireann in the news a good deal lately, in stories relating to housing development and wastewater treatment infrastructure issues, and without a general overview, it can be difficult to tie those separate threads together to get a picture of why the State agency responsible for the country’s water management is coming under such scrutiny all of a sudden.
Which is precisely what this is intended to be, a general overview, to get readers up to speed on the difficulties facing Uisce Éireann, and why they threaten to cascade and affect far more than you might otherwise expect.