Wildfires in Northern Ireland and their environmental cost


“Wildfires within these catchments not only pose a terrible risk to all life but can remove the primary layer of vegetation, leaving the burned bare soil exposed to erosion which then makes its way into the reservoirs, from where water is abstracted for treatment to be drinking water,” said NI Water’s Rebecca Allen.



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