Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion
Dr. Eimear Cotter:
Absolutely. I referred to this earlier with respect to rivers. In figure 5, we can see the trend from 2010 to 2022 for nitrates nationally. We have then broken it down by region. The south-east region, midlands and eastern regions are where I referred to there being a 25% increase between 2013 and 2025. Then there are the south-west, western and Border regions. We show the picture nationally and then break it down regionally. That is all based on samples taken out of water bodies and analysed in our laboratories.
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