Shannon Water for Dublin?

saabsaab wrote: »

Well Athlone has the water.

LuasSimon wrote: »

Dublin has taken all the jobs and young people from rural Ireland..might as well take the water as well!

saabsaab wrote: »

From what I gather 50% of Dublins water is being lost!
The system is unable to cope, little is being done to improve it and will lead to bursts even if Shannon water is pumped there.





https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mains-supply-awash-with-leaks-behind-dublin-water-shortage-1.3561620

Sea water is unsuitable for drinking as it's salt content is to high. Desalination isn't an option either. I don't have enough time or crayons to explain why.

You're proving the point. Thanks. So in the winter it rains a lot, much more so than in the summer. So if we pump during the flood seasons to Peamount to be stored & dispersed during the summer there will be minimum damage to the river, the environment, the wildlife and the people living on the banks of the river. As you say even the people in flooded houses won't notice a drop.

Even the original plan to construct an artificial lake wouldn't have provided enough storage to reduce winter flooding on the river.

The abstraction plan never proposed to offer a solution to flooding.

The worst of the flooding is from Athlone to Meelick.

Quite a few houses have been abandoned and nobody familiar with the area would construct a new one in the flood zone.

If a local authority refused pp it's hard to understand why ABP would reverse the decision.

Ok so you acceptst the th impact on the west side of the pipe is nearly zero but your argument is now ecconomic, that there are better uses of the funds let me address that next.

Like it or lump it, Dublin is the economic power house of the country for a multitude of geographic, historic, politcal and demographic reasons, no wishful thinking is going to change that. Economics of scale and the gravity effect ensure this.

We saw a figure of €1.65B to build it, let's call it €3B after overruns, Dublin generates€157B of GDP or 42% of national GDP and 60% or €41B of tax revenue for the country (Dublin chamber). So if we remove a limit to growth, ie water availability you would expectthse figure to grow faster than they otherwise would.

Lastly Dublin is not overcooked, it is a small city in global terms, yes it could be better managed and designed but it is not a chaotic hellscape busting at the seems, there is plent of space up and out for Dublin to grow. By removing one of the limiting factors to growth I would expect the ROI would be signifigant, let's assume a modest 2% increased growth which means the pipe pays for itself in less than 4 years from increased tax revenue

What are your costings for a new setlment on the Shannon?

That's it, the abstraction plan won't alleviate flooding.

That doesn't make the plan a slam dunk.

It needs to go through rigorous examination on environmental and economic grounds.

Did you actually read that link?

The 'campaigner' hasn't got a clue, she actually thinks the lake level will drop, like it's a standalone entity.

It did give me a good chuckle though