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) 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: 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.
In 2003, there was a project underway to prevent interbasin transfer of the invasive fish species, Mozambique tilapia.
Sunwater planned to install mesh screens near irrigation channel outlets to prevent the escape of the fish.