According to the new state body that is taking over the
country’s water supplies. When the
economy dictated that the country should save, all the politicians, bureaucrats
and profiteers came together to see how the country could not save, but lay
their hands on more. One of the
solutions was to spend hundreds of millions of euro on installing water meters to
more than 1 million households that the country so far had not needed, and
could have done well without. Not only
that, but since Ireland’s closest neighbour was the one with experience in
installing these meters, most of the contracts event there, not even benefiting
the local economy. And have you ever
thought of the standards of the installation of these water meters. It will cost the new quango extra to have it
done well, but they will benefit economically if there is a leek on your side
of the meter. There is a lot of talk
about how you should fix your dripping taps, but a drip a few feet underground
will never be discovered and can easily eat up your measly “free” allowance.
Metered water will lead to a colossal additional private
outlay on all sorts of water collecting devices for the less efficient
individual collection of rainwater. A
reduced use of water for example for toilet flushing which will lead to more
clogged sewage pipes because there is still the same amount of unmentionables
and paper to flush away but less water to do it with.
And the new quango (same
as the old quango Board Gais) has already forecasted that it needs to spend untold
hundreds of millions on new water projects.
It’s easy to hide some big bonuses to the top brass among a billion Euro
of projects. Percentage-wise the outlay
on performance bonuses will be so “insignificant”
I specially feel
sorry for all them that has already had to pay for their own water treatment
plants in the community, had them roughly expropriated by the state and now is
expected to pay for the water all over again.
