SunWater

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title: "SunWater" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["water-companies-of-queensland", "government-owned-companies-of-queensland"] description: "Water company" topic_path: "general/water-companies-of-queensland" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunWater" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Sunwater
logo	SunWater logo.png
type	Government-owned corporation
area_served	Queensland
industry	Water resources
products	Water
services	From designing and building dams, managing and operating infrastructure
assets	10 billion
parent	Government of Queensland
homepage
footnotes
location_city	Brisbane
location_country	Australia
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Sunwater is a statutory Queensland Government-owned corporation that supplies bulk water to over irrigation, industry and urban customers and water consultancy services to a range of institutional clients across regional Queensland, Australia.

Sunwater was established on 1 October 2000 pursuant to the and the

Function and activities

Sunwater is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 19 major dams, 65 weirs, 80 major pumping stations and more than 2500 km of pipelines and open channels. Water storage infrastructure managed by Sunwater includes:

• Burdekin Falls Dam
• Bjelke-Petersen Dam
• Kinchant Dam
• Wuruma Dam

Sunwater constructed, and owns and operates the Tinaroo Hydro Power Station, a minihydroelectric power station at Lake Tinaroo; and the Paradise Mini-Hydro, a minihydroelectric power station at Paradise Dam, impacted by flooding near Bundaberg in 2010.

History

In 2003, there was a project underway to prevent interbasin transfer of the invasive fish species, Mozambique tilapia. The fish breeds rapidly and competes with native fish species. Sunwater planned to install mesh screens near irrigation channel outlets to prevent the escape of the fish.

References

References

1. "Home - Sunwater :: Water for prosperity".
2. "Frequently Asked Questions - Sunwater :: Making Water Work".
3. "Profile - Sunwater :: Water for prosperity".
4. "What we do - Sunwater :: Water for prosperity".
5. "Contact Us - Sunwater :: Water for prosperity".
6. "Current Government-owned businesses". [[Government of Queensland]].
7. "Archived copy".
8. "Kinchant Dam".
9. Hodge, Amanda. (2 April 2003). "Carpentaria rivers face toxic shock from renegade fish". [[The Australian]].

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