SunWater

Sunwater
Type	Government-owned corporation
Industry	Water resources
Headquarters	Brisbane, Australia
Area served	Queensland
Products	Water
Services	From designing and building dams, managing and operating infrastructure
Total assets	A$10 billion
Parent	Government of Queensland
Website	sunwater.com.au
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SunWater, the trading name of SunWater Limited, is a statutory Queensland Government -owned corporation[6] that supplies bulk water to over 5,000 customers and water consultancy services to a range of institutional clients in the Wide Bay–Burnett and North West regions of Queensland, Australia.

SunWater was established on 1 October 2000 pursuant to the Government Owned Corporations Act 1993 (QLD) and the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)

Function and activities

SunWater is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 19 major dams,[3] 63 weirs,[3] 80 major pumping stations[3] and more than 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) of pipelines[3] and open channels. Water storage infrastructure managed by SunWater includes Burdekin Falls Dam,[7] Bjelke-Petersen Dam[7] and Wuruma Dam.[7]

SunWater constructed, and owns and operates the Tinaroo Hydro Power Station, a mini–hydroelectric power station at Lake Tinaroo;[7] and the Paradise Mini-Hydro, a mini–hydroelectric power station at Paradise Dam, impacted by flooding near Bundaberg in 2010.

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