SunWater

Sunwater
Government-owned corporation
Industry Water resources
Headquarters Brisbane, Australia
Area served
Queensland
Products Water
Services From designing and building dams, managing and operating infrastructure
Total assets A$7 billion
Parent Government of Queensland
Website sunwater.com.au
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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] and Wuruma Dam.[7]

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

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