Senate debates

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Water Amendment Bill 2008

In Committee

10:11 am

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

The off-takes for Adelaide and the communities which I have outlined around the Lower Lakes—Langhorne Creek, Raukkan and the Narrung and Poltalloch peninsulas—will be upstream of Wellington. Second, in terms of delivery of water to those communities, given the situation in the Lower Lakes, the most reliable way of delivering water to those communities in the current circumstances is through the pipelines network that the federal government is funding.

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