At the moment Irish Water estimates that there are:
1. 69,000 customers with no supply (down from 109,000 at the peak)
2. Where customers were reliant on water storage this number has decreased by 260,000 to just over 100,000 and their full supply has been restored.
3. Counties worst affected by the outages are Waterford and Cork.
During the night, ESB Networks has been working on several of these schemes and they are confident that these numbers will be significantly reduced in the coming hours.
In many other schemes, generators are maintaining power supply pending full restoration of mains service.
In Waterford, a number of customers are continuing to experience water outages due to power cuts associated with Storm Ophelia.
Affected areas include Tallow, Ardmore, Grange, Aglish, Clashmore and the Ballylaneen/Kill/Bonmahon area. A large number of other smaller supplies have also been affected throughout the county.
A large number of other smaller supplies have also been affected throughout the county.
In addition, Boil Water Notices have been issued for the Knockalisheen, Modeligo, Carrowgarriff, Ballysaggart, Clashmore, Garravoone, Castlereagh and The Nire supplies as we cannot guarantee adequate disinfection due to a power outage.
Irish Water, working with the HSE, will continue to monitor these supplies and work to restore them to compliance as quickly as possible.
They're asking that customers who have a water supply would conserve their water as we work to restore a normal supply to all customers as quickly as possible.
Tankers are currently being mobilised and a number of water supply locations will be set up in affected areas.
