(Eco Eye s1/e5)
The Big Picture
Around the country, more than 150,000 homes get their drinking water from Group Water Schemes fed by wells, groundwater springs, lakes or water from their local authority. Nearly half of these are polluted and the EU is threatening legal action over the appalling state of them. This item investigates [...]
Posts Tagged ‘drinking water’
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Episode 05
Episode 03
(Eco Eye s1/e3)
The Big Picture
This item investigates rural water quality and how it is under threat from septic tank pollution. Septic tanks are now used by one and a quarter million rural homes around Ireland but they are probably the most basic and least effective technology that deals with wastewater and raw sewage on-site because [...]
Episode 06
(Eco Eye s3/e6)
Item 1
Community & Lifestyle
Litter
The EPA describes litter as one of the ‘most visible and regrettable environmental problems we have’. Our neighbours in central Europe don’t have this problem, neither do the Scandinavians or even the consumer-driven Americans. We ask why?
We talk to Irish Businesses Against Litter who have estimated that between us, we [...]
Episode 10
Eco Eye (s5/e10)
Drinking water in Ireland
Duncan looks into the quality of drinking water in Ireland and finds out more about Cryptosporidium. He chats with Darragh Page of the EPA who explains exactly what this is. One of the main issues when it comes to drinking water in Ireland today is that we don’t know whether [...]
Episode 06
Eco Eye (s6/e6)
Item 1 (Big Picture strand) – “Biochange, Burren”
As we progress further into the post-industrial 21st Century, Ireland’s Biodiversity is dwindling dangerously low. In this item, we focus on an innovative research project ‘Biochange’, which examines varying aspects of Biodiversity loss in Ireland.
Item 2 (Community lifestyle strand) – “Drinking Water”
Water, the elixir [...]