Water, water everywhere except the kitchen sink

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"We will probably have to introduce restrictions for a number of weeks, if not months, to come".

Meanwhile Irish Water says it may be a number of days before a safe supply is restored to hundreds of homes in part of south Tipperary.

Among the worst-affected counties with no supply is Wexford, where 17,500 are hit. And the wider we can apply that better in order to conserve water in the reservoirs.

"This is not something that we will resolve in the next day or two", said Grant.

In the Greater Dublin Area Irish Water saw an increase of over 10% in demand from Friday to Sunday. "Increasing demand coupled with weather related bursts and leaks has resulted in our water treatment plants running at capacity which could lead to water restrictions in the coming week", an Irish Water spokesperson said.

Irish Water managing director Jerry Grant painted a gloomy picture of night-time restrictions running into weeks or months as it struggles to fix the ageing infrastructure.

Irish Water managing director Eamon Gallen says there are still "severe concerns about the greater Dublin area" with reservoir levels extremely low. "There is not enough water in our reservoirs to meet the current levels of demand".

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The move, which kicks in tonight (March 5) at 7pm, will also affect parts of Wicklow, Kildare and Meath.

Hospitals on the network will be prioritised and have water diverted to them.

The pressure reduction is in place to try and ease some of the pressure while teams work on fixing the leaks and to avoid widespread outages.

High demand is still being registered in the follow water supply schemes: Letterkenny, Milford, Fanad East, Fanad West, Eddie Fullerton Pollan Dam, Inishowen West Meendoran, East Inishowen, Buncrana, Frosses Inver, Donegal Eske, and Owenteskina, due to, more than likely, taps being left running in peoples' properties and on farms.

Some 3,000 people have been affected by storm related boil water notices.

Over the weekend Irish Water repaired three bursts in the North Docklands, Infirmary Road and Skerries.

The utility added that outages could be reported by calling 1850 278278 and that advice was at water.ie.

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