water meters

Irish Water: Metering helps us divert capital investment in the general network

Mick Fealty on April 1, 2015, 1:38 pm

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With the shock news that customers of Northern Ireland Water are actually already paying for their water [[Regardless of usage, or ability to pay… – Ed] RTE’s Mary Wilson spoke to Elizabeth Arnett (6 mins in) of Irish Water about its new First Fix scheme. It’s an initiative which allows them to prioritise and fix the worst leaks even when it is on the customer’s property, for free, which gave Ms Arnett a perfect opportunity to make a positive argument in favour of metering: Firstly it’s not good …

Sinn Fein protest water meters in Dundalk, but have ensured they are installed in Newry?

Mick Fealty on November 27, 2014, 7:42 pm

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So, Sinn Fein didn’t order the continuation of the installation of 35,000 water meters in new build houses in Northern Ireland at a cost of £13.3 million? Well, no. The minister’s department did refuse to allow NI Water off the hook of putting water meters as it was required to do by law. Brian Stanley put it thus… Sinn Féin can only do what it can do at any point in time being in the power-sharing executive, and that situation …