The utility around 7% of all meters read so far have indicated such a leak, many involving internal plumbing like toilet cisterns.
It estimates that enough water to fill 18 Olympic size swimming pools – is being lost every day through leaking pipes – on the customers’ side of the meter.
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Elizabeth Arnett, spokeswoman for Irish Water, said the numbers showed the northwest region has the highest number of household leakages.
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