Debates about rural piped water were ongoing decades before the government provided the grants that allowed Group Water Schemes (GWSs) to develop in the 1960s and 1970s as an alternative to the public water supply in areas where the public supply was not networked. This timeline represents our efforts to document the issues and continuity of concerns that have surrounded GWSs and the implementation of policies that have shaped their recent changes. It also highlights their relationship to the politics of the public water supply in Ireland.
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