The city’s two most outspoken and controversial councillors have been elected to a new board which will work to improve the standard of Galway’s drinking water.
At Monday’s city council meeting Independent councillor Catherine Connolly and Fine Gael councillor Pádraig Conneely were elected to the re-established Western River Basin District Advisory Council.
The council was reactivated following the recent presentation of the Western River Basin District Management Plan which assessed the quality of Galway’s drinking water and the state of Lough Corrib and the River Corrib.
The report said the quality of Galway’s drinking water was only “moderate” and that the state of our lakes and rivers are being threatened by septic tanks, the lack of properly serviced treatment plants, and the impact of agriculture and human waste.
