Abstract
Kelly-Quinn, M., S. Blacklocke, M. Bruen, R. Earle, E. O'Neill, J. O'Sullivan, and P. Purcell. 2014. Dublin Ireland: a city addressing challenging water supply, management, and governance issues. Ecology and Society 19(4): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06921-190410
Highlights
The population of the greater Dublin area (GDA) is projected to grow significantly over the coming decades from its current 1.3 million
Somewhere in the region of 550 million liters per day of water are currently required and it is estimated that if demand behavior/culture remains relatively unchanged and factors such as population growth, migration/urbanization, climate change, and innovation/ technological balance regarding supply/demand are considered, this figure will increase to 800 million liters per day by 2031 (Dublin City Council 2010a)
In the case of the Dublin water supply proposal under the Water Framework Directive (WFD), if some volume of water from the Shannon River Basin is transferred to the Eastern River Basin, and in doing so it can be shown that this volume of water is no longer put to its longterm highest valued use, there is a resource cost associated with that transfer that should be accounted for, priced, and recovered
Summary
The population of the greater Dublin area (GDA) is projected to grow significantly over the coming decades from its current 1.3 million. The Troika requires that Ireland charge domestic customers directly for drinking water in line with the legislation, policy, and procedures of the EU as is being implemented in all other EU Member States, and in the context of nonrevenue water/ unaccounted-for water being as high as 40% in some urban areas, including Dublin Funding this drinking water supply service indirectly through taxation was deemed to be inefficient, with no clear incentive to tackle the leakages and conserve water, and with potential productivity and efficiency gains achievable through a single public water utility for the whole country benefiting from economics of scale (DECLG 2012). Ireland is perhaps juggling with the ultimate all-inclusive, multicriteria, decision-making framework (i.e., multidiscipline, mutisectoral, and multiscale), the common criticism of which is that such an approach inevitably leads to protracted decision making
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