WaterSecure

WaterSecure
Statutory authority overview
Queensland Manufactured Water Authority

Jurisdiction	South East Queensland
Headquarters	Level 2, 95 North Quay, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Motto	A new source of pure water
Parent department	Department of Energy and Water Supply
Key document	South East Queensland Water (Restructuring) Act 2007 (QLD)

WaterSecure, the trading name of the Queensland Manufactured Water Authority, was a statutory authority of the Government of Queensland which supplied water to the South East Queensland region of Australia through its desalination plant and a water recycling scheme. WaterSecure was merged with Seqwater on 1 July 2011.^[1]

Function and activities

The Gold Coast Desalination Plant is the first large-scale desalination plant on Australia's eastern seaboard and was named Membrane Desalination Plant of the Year (2009) at the Global Water Awards. The plant has the capacity to supply up to 133 megalitres a day of pure drinking water to South East Queensland.

Desalinated water is supplied directly into the SEQ Water Grid, flowing to homes and businesses on the Gold Coast and Brisbane. Purified water is currently supplied to the region’s major power stations, and in future will also be supplied to other industrial and agricultural users.

The Western Corridor Recycled Water provides purified water to Swanbank Power Station and Tarong Power Station^[2] with the capacity to supply industry and agriculture. Should Wivenhoe Dam levels once again fall below 40 per cent, the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme can top the dam up with purified water from the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme’s advanced water treatment plants.

Combined, WaterSecure's assets had the capacity to supply water equivalent to the daily needs of more than 1.8 million people under Target 200 restrictions.

References

↑ South East Queensland Water (Restructuring) Regulation 2011 See Part 4 and commencement date in Endnote 5.
↑ Water recycling project wins prestigious environment award. Media Release.

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Water supply in Queensland, Australia

Dams and reservoirs by region

South East Queensland	Atkinson Baroon Pocket Biggera Creek Bill Gunn Bromelton Cedar Grove Weir Lake Clarendon Enoggera Ewen Maddock Gold Creek Hinze Lake Manchester Leslie Harrison Little Nerang Maroon Moogerah Mount Crosby Weir North Pine Poona Sideling Creek Six Mile Creek Somerset Splityard Creek Wappa Wivenho Wyaralong

Darling Downs	Connolly Cooby Coolmunda Cressbrook Glenlyon Leslie Perseverance

South West Queensland	E.J. Beardmore Neil Turner Weir

Wide Bay–Burnett	Ben Anderson Barrage Bjelke-Petersen Boobir Boondooma Borumba Cania Cedar Pocket Cooloolabin Fred Haigh Gordonbrook Lake Gregory Lenthalls McCauley Weir Meandu Creek Paradise Placer Wuruma

Central Queensland	Lake Awoonga Burton Gorge Callide Fairbairn Fitzroy River Barrage Kroombit Middle Creek Number 7 Teemburra Theresa Creek

North Queensland	Bamboo Burdekin Eungella Gattonvale Offstream Storage Kinchant Paluma Peter Faust Ross River Solomon Teviot Creek

Far North Queensland	Copperlode Ibis Irvinebank Koombooloomba Return Creek Southedge Stannary Hills Lake Tinaroo Wild River

North West Queensland	Lake Belmore Corella East Leichhardt Lake Julius Kidston Lake Moondarra Rifle Creek

Historical	Nindooinbah Tallebudgera Creek

Water resource management by function

Companies and government agencies	Gold Coast Water Queensland Urban Utilities seqwater SunWater WaterSecure

Other sources / facilities	Bradfield Scheme Bundaberg Irrigation Scheme Gold Coast Desalination Plant Mount Crosby Pumping Station SEQ Water Grid Toowoomba Water Futures referendum, 2006 Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme

Regulators	Department of Energy and Water Supply

Historical	Brisbane Water LinkWater Queensland Water Commission SEQ Water Grid Manager

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Commons

WaterSecure

Function and activities

See also

References

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