A chara, – To suggest, as many elected representatives have done recently, that water meters should be scrapped displays a serious lack of knowledge of water management.
Those of us involved in the numerous group schemes to provide water to rural areas know we would have gone out of business if we did not have water meters. They act as leak detectors and, as Irish Water has discovered, a very large percentage of water leaks occur inside people’s properties.
That TDs of all political parties fail to acknowledge that people on group water schemes have the same difficulty in meeting the challenges of everyday living is both arrogant and insulting.
True socialism means that people both urban and rural should contribute to paying part of the cost of managing and conserving this precious resource.
– Is mise,
C MacCURTÁIN
Co Limerick.
Sir, – An early thank you to all taxpayers who pay for water through group water schemes.
Now that water charges are to be abolished (suspended) money for our water services will have to be found through increased income tax.
Those on group water schemes will also pay the higher rate which effectively means they will subsidise public water services.
– Yours, etc,
MICK HANNON
Clones,
Co Monaghan.
Sir, –There is much talk, by those advocating the non-payment of water charges, of using “progressive taxation” as a means of raising money.
How can this work for the thousands of rural people who pay for their own water through group water schemes and private wells?
– Yours, etc,
LUCY KEAVENEY
Ratoath,
Co Meath.