Six Clare locations are included in a new Environmental Protection Agency highlighting a lack of sewage treatment services.
The study has found that almost a quarter of Ireland's biggest waste water treatment plants do not meet EU standards – including those at Shannon.
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It says 38 plants are failing when it comes to treating sewage properly. While in Clare five sites at Ballyvaughan, Clarecastle, Kilkee, Kilrush and Liscannor have no treatment.
The EPA says Irish Water has inherited a system suffering from a legacy of under-investment and that the priorities must be to eliminate raw sewage discharges, reduce the pollution impact of sewage and improve the performance of existing wastewater infrastructure.
