Power Outages, SA Water

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:29): Supplementary: can the minister provide a list of assets, which were affected by the power failure?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:29): All assets are affected by the power failure; the question is—

The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink: Which aren't operating.

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: All SA Water's water assets are operating, all SA Water's sewerage assets are operating. As I said, the only issue is for those areas where there is currently no electricity. The provision we have in place for those is that we have filled up the header tanks so that there is sufficient water supply in those places. If the electricity stays out, we will have to go and either take generators around or manually fill those header tanks. Those contingencies are being kept under advisement by SA Water. In terms of sewerage assets, the ones I mentioned, small pits or sewerage assets where we rely on electricity to do the pumping, where they don't have electric backups because they are so small and supply so few places, we are physically going around with teams with the generators to do that pumping to keep those pits emptied.