Water Survey

Evaluation of the Public's Awareness of their Drinking Water

This research is funded under the Health Research Board Summer Student Scholarship Programme.

Project Coordinator: Dr. Dearbháile Morris
Researcher: Ms. Maeve Cahalan

Water is a precious and limited resource. According to the UN, 47% of the worlds population will be living in areas of high water stress by 2030.

Ireland's population receive their drinking water from public water supplies (80%), public (2.3%) or private (4.7%) group water schemes (GWS), small private supplies (0.7%) and private wells (12.3%).

This research aims to assess the awareness of the public with regard to the quality of their water supply, how contamination incidents may impact on their health and wellbeing and what impact such incidents have on their confidence

To complete the survey, please click here.

Other Water-Related Research

For other water-related research please click on the following links:

Economic assessment of waterborne outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis in Galway, 2007 

CapE: Capture, Extract, Amplify: A Rapid Method for Monitoring Large Water Volumes for Pathogenic Contaminants?