SA WATER DEAL MAY MEAN SUMMER BAY DUSTBOWL

A deal by SA Water to sell recycled water to Adelaide Airport has led to a 1600% price rise in water sold to local community groups.

The arrangement is claimed to threaten the future of major sports grounds and golf courses in the West Beach-Glenelg recreation precinct.

Local MP Duncan McFetridge said SA Water had already told some of the clubs that as result of a new deal to supply the airport with treated effluent from the Glenelg WWTP, the cost of recycled water for existing customers in the local recreation precinct would skyrocket from 2.5c per kilolitre to 41c per kilolitre

He said that Adelaide Shores, the Glenelg and Kooyonga golf courses, Glenelg Baseball Club, the Metropolitan Showjumping Club and Holdfast Bay Council will all be severely affected by SA Water ending a decades-old agreement to supply recycled water from Glenelg Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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Dr McFetridge said SA Water’s ultimatum meant the clubs and facilities faced the stark alternative of turning off the water and turning the area's golf courses and sports grounds into "a summer dustbowl.," concluding that it was "incredibly disappointing and disloyal that SA Water – a 100% government-owned corporation – should choose to leave the community high and dry in this way.”