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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2016-09-29" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Power Outages, SA Water</name>
      <text id="20160929c0b465aaa7a241e6a0000051">
        <heading>Power Outages, SA Water</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2016-09-29">
            <name>Power Outages, SA Water</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-09-29T14:29:29" />
        <text id="20160929c0b465aaa7a241e6a0000052">
          <timeStamp time="2016-09-29T14:29:29" />
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:29):</by>  Supplementary: can the minister provide a list of assets, which were affected by the power failure?</text>
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      <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 Climate Change</electorate>
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          <question date="2016-09-29">
            <name>Power Outages, SA Water</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-09-29T14:29:35" />
        <text id="20160929c0b465aaa7a241e6a0000053">
          <timeStamp time="2016-09-29T14:29:35" />
          <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 Climate Change) (14:29):</by>  All assets are affected by the power failure; the question is—</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20160929c0b465aaa7a241e6a0000054">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink:</by>  Which aren't operating.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  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.</text>
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