Water Meters

The Hon. J.A. DARLEY (15:17): By way of supplementary question, with respect minister, part of the question you answered I didn't ask. I was asking: you already put the meter reading on individual accounts for householders where it is a single assessment, single house. The information is already available in the SA Water system: why can't that meter reading be put on the individual accounts for those multiple occupied properties?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (15:18): I am not quite aware of what the honourable member is getting at. I have never been chastised before for giving people more information than they have asked for. When there is one meter, one account is raised, and that will usually go to the strata corporation. The strata corporation will then, through its own processes, allocate a shared cost to those units.

If individual units have their own meter, that of course is no longer an issue—they get that through their own processes and database—but where there is one meter servicing a group of flats, for example, or a group of units, there will be one account issued for that meter (as I understand it at least), and that will go to the strata corporation, and that will be part of the process of the strata corporation allocating a share on their own policies that their members voted on to adopt. That is how it will be distributed and allocated.