NI Water has issued a statement reassuring its customers that the water supplied from all its Water Treatment Works, which includes water abstracted from Lough Neagh, is safe to drink and use as normal.
The statement follows evidence of the presence of cyanobacteria in Lough Neagh, commonly known as blue-green algae, in recent weeks.
The water company said that drinking water supplied from the water treatment works which use Lough Neagh as their raw water sources, are designed with the potential for algae to be present and robust treatment processes are in place to manage this effectively.
NI Water has insisted there is no risk to supply from the Lough, saying it has a robust testing and sampling system in place which sees over 120,000 samples lifted and analysed each year. Sampling and analysis are carried out 365 days per year. Samples are taken from customer homes, reservoirs and treatment plants.
The frequency of algae monitoring is increased over the summer months when the risk for algae in the raw water would generally be higher.
Four Water Treatment Works abstract raw water from Lough Neagh, which supplies 40.7% of the drinking water within Northern Ireland. ater filters/water containers
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