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Water resources are abundant in Ireland, with 82% of drinking water supplies in Ireland sourced from surface water (i.e. rivers and lakes) and 18% coming from groundwater – 10.5% from groundwater and 7.6% from springs. This high dependence on surface water is above the EU average. [17]
The Rietvlei dam is an earth-fill type dam and is one of a number of dams supplying water to the Pretoria region of South Africa. It supplies around 41 million liters of drinking water daily, [1] about 5.9% of the water requirement of Pretoria. [4] The dam mainly serves for municipal and industrial use. Its hazard potential has been ranked high ...
Pretoria News is a daily English-medium newspaper established in 1898 in South Africa's capital city Pretoria. It is distributed in the Tshwane Metropolitan area. Pretoria News covers a range of local news, as well as national and international news, comment and analysis by experts, sport, entertainment and lifestyle. It publishes a daily ...
Uisce Éireann (/ ˈ ɪ ʃ k ə / ISH-kuh / ˈ ɛ ər ən / AIR-un, Irish: ISH-kya [ˈeːɾˠən̪ˠ] AY-ryen), formerly and commonly known as Irish Water, is a state-owned water utility company in Ireland. It was created by the Irish Government in 2013 as a subsidiary of Bord Gáis.
The Right2Water Ireland campaign announced a march in Dublin on 17 September 2016, citing its lack of faith in the expert panel set up by Government to oversee the issue and suggesting that the electorate, having given TDs a mandate to abolish Irish Water and taxes on water, remained angry that the matter had not been resolved. [22]
This category is for articles pertaining to reservoirs in Ireland. For lakes see Category:Lakes of Ireland . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Ireland .
Climate change may have a range of impacts in Ireland.Increasing temperatures may change weather patterns, with the potential for increased heatwaves, rainfall and storm events, with subsequent impacts on people through flooding [1] Climate change has been assessed to be the single biggest threat to Ireland, according to the head of the Defence Forces of Ireland, Mark Mellett.
The Shannon–Erne Waterway (Irish: Uiscebhealach na Sionainne is na hÉirne) is a canal linking the River Shannon in the Republic of Ireland with the River Erne in Northern Ireland. Managed by Waterways Ireland, the canal is 63 km (39 mi) in length, has sixteen locks and runs from Leitrim village in County Leitrim to Upper Lough Erne in County ...