Appeal – keep conserving water

IRISH Water is continuing to ask the public to take sustained action to conserve water as weather conditions remain warm and the drought is increasingly reducing capacity in rivers, lakes and boreholes, while production plants struggle to meet increasing demand.

As well as reducing consumption, Irish Water is appealing to the public to report leaks on the public water network on 1850 278 278 and to repair private side leaks in both homes and in businesses.

The public are asked to change their mindset on water usage and to conserve water now and for the months ahead as it will take many weeks and even months for raw water levels to restore in rivers, lakes, boreholes and for treated water levels to restore in our storage reservoirs.

As the warm weather continues, the demand on supplies remains high while available water resources are diminishing. Irish Water is appealing to the public to conserve water as much as possible and to avoid unnecessary use of water.

Irish Water and Mayo County Council are monitoring all supplies across the county on a daily basis and the four most at-risk areas that have been identified are the Lough Mask, Westport, Mulranny and the Ballina Public Water Supply Schemes covering Lacken to Knockmore and Bonniconlon to Crossmolina. Customers on these supplies are urged to conserve water wherever possible.

There was an outage last night in the Ballygolman and Aughagower areas on the Westport Water Supply Scheme to allow the Landkill Reservoir to refill following a leak on the line.