{"id":585976,"date":"2026-08-07T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585976\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:30:16","slug":"more-reservoirs-needed-as-ireland-faces-growing-water-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585976\/","title":{"rendered":"More reservoirs needed as Ireland faces growing water challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.96fm.ie\/news\/96fm-news-and-sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All 96FM News &amp; Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a75b7a48acb9cb4c03.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Via: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            There are calls for more investment in water storage.\n        <\/p>\n<p>There are calls for greater investment in water storage as Ireland experiences more frequent swings between flooding and dry conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Carlow Weather\u2019s Alan O\u2019Reilly says climate change is contributing to more extreme weather patterns, with farmers and communities increasingly feeling the effects.<\/p>\n<p>He says recent flooding and wildfires should serve as a warning that more preparation is needed to manage changing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Reilly told the Opinion Line with PJ Coogan on Cork&#8217;s 96FM that Ireland needs to look at solutions including more reservoirs and nature-based water storage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be looking at building more reservoirs and more nature-based kind of storage of water, because we go from flooding in the autumn and the winter, then to droughts in the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says better water management will become increasingly important as Ireland adapts to a changing climate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=7f34f5aa-7e94-4bfd-8061-e41ce90c27a8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68da98f341698.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 96FM News &amp; Sport Via: Getty There are calls for more investment in water storage. There are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1339,61,60,1344,1345,43,1343,1342,1341,1340],"class_list":["post-585976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-96fm","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-live-broadcast-available","tag-lorraine-and-ross","tag-news","tag-news-and-information","tag-presenters","tag-programmes","tag-the-word-on-96fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}