November 21st, 2018 Europe’s intensive agriculture strategy is affecting the EU’s drinking water quality, one of Europe’s leading conservation NGO has said. Birdlife Europe has said that Europe’s Current Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) is profit-driven, wasteful and focused on producing large crops while overlooking the safety of the bloc’s freshwater Read more…
August 22nd, 2018 Bottled water companies are quietly depleting aquifers across the globe. This is the findings of a recent report in Bloomberg that revealed Nestlé, one of the world’s leading bottled water producers, is exploiting economically depressed areas with lax water laws, sucking their aquifers dry, and paying very Read more…
April 19th, 2018 The Government’s River Basin Management Plan has drawn a criticism from a network of environmental NGOs concerned with water issues and the Green Party. The Plan, launched earlier this week following lengthy delays, falls short of what is needed to protect our waters, according to the Sustainable Read more…
22nd March 2017 Today is World Water Day! To mark the day we’re sharing a list of ways you can reduce water consumption in your home. Did you know that in the average Irish household one person uses about 160 litres of water a day? Water needs to be treated Read more…
May 27th, 2016 Look around, is there plastic near you? Of course there is. Plastic is everywhere. The cheap practical material is used for a large number of goods, it revolutionised our lives but what about the “after”? The pieces left behind, on the streets and most importantly in our Read more…
With our growing population and consumption, we hear everywhere that if we continue to consume the way we do we will need more than one planet.
24th March, 2016 ‘Boil water’ notices that were issued to Irish water consumers are being met with fresh scrutiny, with fears that boiling water could increase the potency of certain harmful chemicals. The chemicals at the centre of the controversy are Trihalomethanes (THM’s), which are toxic compounds that occur in Read more…
March 3rd, 2016 Environmental NGO ‘Friends of the Irish Environment’ (FIE) is campaigning for Irish Water to provide customers with information on the level of trihalomethanes (THM’s) in their water. THM’s are toxic compounds which occur in drinking water due to the reaction of organic chemicals, when chlorine is added Read more…
In the latest installment of our election diary, we examine the Social Democrats’ manifesto for policies pertaining to environmental protection and climate change.
