NI Water tests reveal water standards are not being met in 15 of the 43 parameters measured
One major and 15 out of 19 significant events that threatened drinking water safety last year related to NI Water treatment plants.
They include lead, total trihalomethanes, odour, nickel, iron, taste, clostridium perfringens, aluminium, coliform bacteria, enterococci, manganese, turbidity, hydrogen ion , E.coli and other pesticides. It must take a specified number of samples from customer taps, private supplies and water treatment plants which the DWI then checks for compliance, before reporting back to Northern Ireland Environment Agency and the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
Last year, NI Water did 95,661 water tests with 111 found to have contravened regulatory standards compared to 59 out of 91,581 in 2020. It was also 524 individual tests short of the number needed from household taps but the DWI said it was an improvement on 2020, when Covid was in full swing.While just 71% of the private water supplies tested against regulations fully complied.
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