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7th August 2018
06:35pm BST

"About the 10th or 12th of May, we had 150 days storage in Poulaphouca [Reservoir]. It's an enormous resource of water and it saves the city year in, year out," he said. "We used 80 days of that storage in 83 days. In other words, almost nothing was contributed to the storage in that period. "We've about 70 days of usable water left for the Greater Dublin Area, 1.6m people. We could be 90 days before that lake starts to rise depending on how dry the autumn is."In the meantime, Irish Water has confirmed that the hosepipe ban in the area has been extended to Friday 31 August, with a map of the Greater Dublin Water Supply Area to which the ban applies.
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