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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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WATER FOR GOOD

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:25): My question is again to the Minister for Water Security. Can the minister advise why she did not use the $2.4 million spent on marketing the Water for Good 2050 campaign to purchase water for critical human needs? It has been publicly revealed that the government will spend $2.4 million on marketing its Water for Good campaign (whatever that might be). On 15 June 2009 the Budget and Finance Committee was told that $2.4 million could buy 6.7 billion litres or 2,700 Olympic-sized swimming pools of temporary water.

The Hon. K.A. MAYWALD (Chaffey—Minister for the River Murray, Minister for Water Security) (14:26): Again, I am really pleased to be able to answer the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition. When we are talking about the $2.4 million that has been allocated to the education and marketing programs for our Water for Good it brings me to a very important part of that investment that occurred this morning.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.A. MAYWALD: This morning I was very privileged to be part of the launch of a book that has been developed by SA Water, which will be distributed through all of our schools. It is a story about Captain Plop. I read to a group of about 60 young people aged between about four and eight what you need to do to save water in the house and how you as a child could also save water and how you can help your parents save water. These are the kinds of programs that are going to help us to be a water-wise community in the future, to ensure that we can educate our community to understand the value of water and how they can contribute to demand management in this state.

The only way that you can deal with demand management is to provide incentives, which we are doing through a $24 million incentive package for water saving devices, gardening goods and a range of other water saving initiatives; plus we have an education campaign, which we believe is critically important to assist our community to use water more wisely in the future. If anyone in this chamber believes that it is not important to educate people, then I think they seriously need to consider why they are here in the first place.

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