Effluent

38 of Ireland’s Largest Sewage Discharges Fail to Meet Treatment Standard, Discharge of raw and inadequately treated sewage impacts on the environment, including popular bathing waters

The EPA Urban Waste Water Report 2013, released, shows that significant improvement is needed in the infrastructure and management of waste water from Ireland’s towns and villages.  Commenting on the report Mr. Gerard O’Leary, Director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Enforcement said,

Technology capable of sampling water systems to find indicators of fecal matter contamination that are thousandths and even millionths of times smaller than those found by conventional methods is being developed by a team of researchers at Texas A&M University.