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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2013-09-10" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>52</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>SA Water</name>
      <page num="4832" />
      <text id="201309103ea13f9dd3bf430280000393">
        <heading>SA WATER</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2013-09-10">
            <name>SA WATER</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="201309103ea13f9dd3bf430280000394">In reply to <by role="member" id="2742">the Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</by> (4 June 2013).</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2013-09-10">
            <name>SA WATER</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="201309103ea13f9dd3bf430280000395">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation):</by>  As the Minister for Water and the River Murray, I have received this advice:</text>
        <text id="201309103ea13f9dd3bf430280000396">SA Water received the following high water usage queries from 2010 to 2013:</text>
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          <table>
            <rowtitle>
              <cell>Year</cell>
              <cell>No. of high water usage queries</cell>
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            <row>
              <cell>2010-11</cell>
              <cell>535</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>2011-12</cell>
              <cell>1,030</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>2012-13</cell>
              <cell>808</cell>
            </row>
          </table>
        </text>
        <text id="201309103ea13f9dd3bf430280000398" />
        <text continued="true" id="201309103ea13f9dd3bf430280000399">Water lost through SA Water pipe network in 2011-12 was estimated to be 24,117 megalitres, which includes water loss through background leakage and water main breaks.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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