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Tue 04 Apr 2007Water clean-up at least six months offThe quickest solution to cleaning up Galway's contaminated water supply will take up to six months to implement, the city's councillors were told last night.In the first city council meeting since much of the county was ordered to boil their tap water three weeks ago, city manager Joe MacGrath defended the council's handing of what he called the most challenging issue ever faced by the local authority.