Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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If I go to a bridge over a river, I often see EPA vehicles sampling water. If the EPA is sampling for pollution or other things, can it distinguish between human and animal waste in the sewage or pollutants in a river? Can it distinguish between it in phosphorous and other things that the EPA is looking for?