SunWater explained

Sunwater
Type:Government-owned corporation
Products:Water
Services:From designing and building dams, managing and operating infrastructure
Assets:10 billion
Parent:Government of Queensland
Footnotes:[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 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 and the

Function and activities

Sunwater is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 19 major dams, 63 weirs, 80 major pumping stations and more than of pipelines and open channels. Water storage infrastructure managed by Sunwater includes:

SunWater constructed, and owns and operates the Tinaroo Hydro Power Station, a minihydroelectric power station at Lake Tinaroo; and the Paradise Mini-Hydro, a minihydroelectric power station at Paradise Dam, impacted by flooding near 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home - Sunwater :: Water for prosperity . 5 February 2008 . 27 January 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080127172805/http://www.sunwater.com.au/ . live .
  2. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions - Sunwater :: Making Water Work . 22 October 2010 . 18 November 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101118042515/http://www.sunwater.com.au/home/frequently-asked-questions . live .
  3. Web site: Profile - SunWater :: Making Water Work . 2 September 2013 . 30 August 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130830075632/http://www.sunwater.com.au/about-sunwater/profile . live .
  4. Web site: What we do - SunWater :: Making Water Work . 2 September 2013 . 16 August 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130816203009/http://sunwater.com.au/about-sunwater/profile/what-we-do . live .
  5. Web site: Contact Us - Sunwater :: Making Water Work . 2 September 2013 . 29 August 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130829025829/http://www.sunwater.com.au/home/contact-us . live .
  6. Web site: Current Government-owned businesses. Queensland Treasury and Trade. Government of Queensland. 2 September 2013. 30 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131130084516/http://www.treasury.qld.gov.au/services/government-owned-businesses/current-businesses.shtml. live.
  7. Web site: Archived copy . 2 September 2013 . 21 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141021040725/http://www.sunwater.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/2099/SunWater_Dams_2011.pdf . dead .
  8. Web site: Kinchant Dam. 2021-02-21. Sunwater. en-AU. 16 March 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200316014209/https://www.sunwater.com.au/dams/Kinchant-Dam/. live.
  9. News: Hodge . Amanda . 2 April 2003 . Carpentaria rivers face toxic shock from renegade fish . 16 . The Australian.

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