NI Water required emergency funding to maintain services, MLAs told

Northern Ireland’s water supplier would have run out of money if it had not been given emergency funding in January, MLAs have been told.

Senior officials from Northern Ireland Water said they had prepared a “consequence document” which detailed shutting down its wastewater services across the region if extra funding had not been received.

Stormont’s Infrastructure Committee heard concerns that the public company was funded on a “piecemeal basis” and that the arrangements were “not fit for purpose”.

The Spelga Reservoir in the Mourne Mountains of County Down, owned by NI Water (Liam McBurney/PA)
The Spelga Reservoir in the Mourne Mountains of County Down, owned by NI Water (Liam McBurney/PA)

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