Sir, – You report that water is soon likely to cost us 0.02 cent per litre ("Bath set to cost 16 cent while a shower will set you back 25 cent", Home News, May 8th).
Here’s what it costs now. One major supermarket chain is today offering water for sale at prices which range from €1.80 per litre (for a branded multipack of small bottles, costing a whopping 9,000 times as much as Irish Water will charge) to 2 cent per litre (for an own brand multipack of 2l bottles, costing 10 times more).
Children’s multipacks range from 29 cent (own brand) to 58 cent (branded) per bottle.
It is also easily possible to buy a single half-litre bottle for €2 (20,000 times as much as the estimated charge).
Food for thought, perhaps. – Yours, etc,
DES KELLY,
Home Farm Park,
Drumcondra,
Dublin 9.
Sir, – Apartment dwellers, who are typically younger and less wealthy (and frequently in negative equity), will yet again subsidise the wealthy retired with their defined-benefit pensions and valuable homes.
My apartment block requires only one meter for over 100 apartments, meaning vastly less expense for Irish Water than for an equivalent suburban estate with its leaky pipes and multiple meters, yet we will individually pay much more. I have paid for water in other countries where I’ve lived, but never suffered such cynical machinations from desperate politicians. – Yours, etc,
PAUL KEAN
Long Meadows Apartments,
Conyngham Road,
Dublin 8.
A chara, – If Conor Pope ("Turning on the tap", May 7th) really needs 10 litres of water to flush his WC and two litres of water to make himself a cup of tea, perhaps he should use his two-litre teacup to flush his toilet. – Is mise,
RÓNÁN de PAOR,
Whitefield,
Annestown,
Co Waterford.