Weekend Water Worries
My heart sank a little last week when I received notice that Uisce Éireann would be doing major repairs to a main water pipeline in the Greater Dublin area over this bank holiday weekend. The planned works involved replacing an entire section of one of the main water pipelines, which would potentially disrupt the supply to a wide area, as demonstrated on this map:
Only a relatively small area was to have its drinking water supply cut off entirely, but residents in the rest of the shaded area above (which includes Maynooth) were requested to conserve water so as not to use up all the water already in the system that would not be replenished while the main was being replaced and a warning was in place about possible disruption to the water supply. I was worried that this might get very awkward if the works overran. Fair play to Uisce Éireann, though, because the works were completed on time earlier today. I haven’t noticed any disruption at all.
P.S. I have done my bit to help conserve water over the weekend by drinking only wine and beer.
In the Dark 
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