Shannon Water for Dublin?

Your first sentence above is so inaccurate. It really shows you have not looked at figures provided earlier in the thread. That could never happen due to the relatively meagre quantities needed. The ESB can drop the level in Lough Derg by 1.5m next week if they feel like it.

I never said it was inexhaustable. There is a published quantity wanted and legal requirements re flow quantity downstream of Parteen and you consistently ignore the facts.

Have there not been occassions when the river has not had enough volume to drive the hydro plant? yes or no?

I see the Shannon at various times during the year. It is clear that it isn't consistent. In winter the graves towards the wall at Clonmacnoise will be inundated while at other times the River is far away in the distance.

Dublin will be pulling the water from the river at times when the river is at its lowest and the loughs will run low.

I will trust what I have seen with my own eyes over a lifetime, not "Trust me Bro" assurances on the internet.

Dublin needs to stop looking with greedy eyes at other peoples' water.

Where I am the local river is not navigable often during the summer due to low water levels even though it is fed by reliable glaciers. All transport and tourism water travel stops until the rains return. Ireland is trying to develop Waterways tourism to the benefit of the regions beyond Dublin and this endangers that positive initiative. Waterways tourism attracts wealthy northern Europeans which is exactly the sort of Tourist Ireland wants(apart from Eamon Ryan and Co.).

Read this report from Waterways Ireland with a picture of a bloke walking across the Shannon.

https://www.catchments.ie/measuring-the-impact-of-the-2018-summer-drought-on-river-flows-and-lake-levels/

Have you figured out yet where the Trojan horse in the plan is?

Anyone remember the plot of Chinatown? one hundred years ago this was coming to a head.

When the fish kills and algae blooms start happening blame the farmers most especially blaming them importing banned insecticide and excessive fertiliser in runoff from the fields which is what is being blamed on the Continent at the moment. You'll get two decades between you and the great swindle from that alone with an ever-eager Green Party of Ireland as useful idiots to disseminate the message.

With less water in the river the temperatures will rise.

OK you're full blown mental. Best to ignore.

This is but a taster of the lunacy that is yet to come if this plan gets the green light.

Every halfwit from Limerick to Carrick-on-Shannon will be out looking for compensation, and every local councillor and "community activist" will be out trying to stoke it up.

The bill to placate these scroungers will dwarf the cost of the actual pipeline.

You're not a victim.

The victims are those who will also have insults like halfwit thrown at them from posters like John Rambo. If you dehumanize them then it is easier to perpetrate injustices against them. People who once were resource wealthy but find themselves deprived of the water to which they have every right to expect to have access.

When the Regime fears its citizens.

When was the right to water established? It is a human right. The people of the midlands are being dispossessed.

You expect them to collect it in bowls and cups from the sky while the water that used to flow by is now piped elsewhere?

The Rural Irish will take time to realise that while they used to have a surfeit of water, that water is now diverted to those who have the power to exert influence over the Regime.

I didn't insult you or call you names, I schooled you and backed it up with hard facts & evidence. You had no comebacks and couldn't back up your superior smugness, barstool stories & assumptions about "de evil lazy city folk". I appreciate it's a hard lesson and reality is dawning on you that your life is subsidised by the state.

You took offence & stayed up all night half pissed spouting half cocked conspiracy theories to yourself while the city folk went to bed early to get up early 😉

10 billion will probably be paid, in part, by the citizens of the Midlands to deprive them of their own resource.

The fishing tourism market is already dying on its arse due to the amount of pollution farmers are pumping into rivers all over the country.