Sunwater
Company typeGovernment-owned corporation
IndustryWater resources
Headquarters
Brisbane
,
Australia
Area served
Queensland
ProductsWater
ServicesFrom designing and building dams, managing and operating infrastructure
Total assetsA$10 billion
ParentGovernment of Queensland
Websitesunwater.com.au
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3][4][5]

Sunwater, the trading name of Sunwater Limited, is a statutory Queensland Government-owned corporation[6] that supplies bulk water to over 5,000 customers and water consultancy services to a range of institutional clients in the Wide Bay–Burnett and North West regions of Queensland, Australia.

Sunwater was established on 1 October 2000 pursuant to the Government Owned Corporations Act 1993 (QLD) and the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)

Function and activities

Sunwater is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 19 major dams,[3] 63 weirs,[3] 80 major pumping stations[3] and more than 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) of pipelines[3] and open channels. Water storage infrastructure managed by Sunwater includes:

SunWater constructed, and owns and operates the Tinaroo Hydro Power Station, a mini–hydroelectric power station at Lake Tinaroo;[7] and the Paradise Mini-Hydro, a mini–hydroelectric power station at Paradise Dam, impacted by flooding near Bundaberg in 2010.

History

In 2003, there was a project underway to prevent interbasin transfer of the invasive fish species, Mozambique tilapia. The fish breeds rapidly and competes with native fish species. Sunwater planned to install mesh screens near irrigation channel outlets to prevent the escape of the fish.[9]

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ "Home - Sunwater :: Water for prosperity". Archived from the original on 27 January 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
  2. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions - Sunwater :: Making Water Work". Archived from the original on 18 November 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Profile - SunWater :: Making Water Work". Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  4. ^ "What we do - SunWater :: Making Water Work". Archived from the original on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Contact Us - Sunwater :: Making Water Work". Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Current Government-owned businesses". Queensland Treasury and Trade. Government of Queensland. Archived from the original on 30 November 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  7. ^ a b c d "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2013.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Kinchant Dam". Sunwater. Archived from the original on 16 March 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  9. ^ Hodge, Amanda (2 April 2003). "Carpentaria rivers face toxic shock from renegade fish". The Australian. p. 16.
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