Sir, – I read with interest that the Government, through Irish Water, is planning to spend €539 million on the installation of water meters (Olivia Kelly, Home News, July 29th).
I live in a rural area in east Galway which has no public water supply and where, during the recent dry spell, my neighbours have struggled to supply water to their households and livestock from inadequate private wells.
A group scheme was designed and ready to go to tender a few years ago when the funding was withdrawn.
It would cost approximately €3 million to supply the 140 or so members, this amounts to about 0.55 per cent of what is to be spent on water meters. – Yours, etc,
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DONAL WYNNE,
Kilrickle,
Loughrea,
Co Galway.