SunWater
Type | Government-owned corporation |
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Industry | Water resources |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Queensland |
Products | Water |
Services | From designing and building dams, managing and operating infrastructure |
Total assets | A$10 billion |
Parent | Government of Queensland |
Website | sunwater |
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:
- Burdekin Falls Dam[7]
- Bjelke-Petersen Dam[7]
- Kinchant Dam[8]
- Wuruma Dam[7]
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.
See also[]
- Queensland Water Commission
- seqwater
- Water security in Australia
- Water supply and sanitation in Australia
External links[]
References[]
- ^ Home - SunWater :: Making Water Work
- ^ Frequently Asked Questions - SunWater :: Making Water Work
- ^ a b c d e Profile - SunWater :: Making Water Work
- ^ What we do - SunWater :: Making Water Work
- ^ Contact Us - SunWater :: Making Water Work
- ^ "Current Government-owned businesses". Queensland Treasury and Trade. Government of Queensland.
- ^ a b c d http://www.sunwater.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/2099/SunWater_Dams_2011.pdf[dead link]
- ^ "Kinchant Dam". Sunwater. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- Water companies of Queensland
- Government-owned companies of Queensland
- Australian company stubs