SA Water Infrastructure

Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:39): A supplementary, sir.

The SPEAKER: We will see.

Mr TELFER: In response to 'there will always be tankering', how long will there be human waste tankered out of the Dry Creek, Concordia and Sellicks Beach developments?

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (14:39): Once these areas are rezoned, there are agreements put in place, called DAFIs, with SA Water. What those DAFIs allow is for developments to be staged and, as you stage them, the pipes are going in and, as the volumes increase, tankering reduces. That is what you are supposed to do, but what those opposite left this government was a situation where there were no sewer pipes being put into the ground that would relieve the tankering situation. That's why we have had to put in $1.5 billion worth of water and sewer investment.