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

We are also funding stormwater harvesting—and the senator well knows that. If the senator wants to talk about responsibility, she should come into this chamber and retract the criticism of the government when she said that we should be buying temporary water and other water to fill the Lower Lakes and how appalling it was that we did not when she well knows that we are in a situation where, as yet, we have not secured Adelaide’s water supplies for the 2009-10 year. It would take up to 1,300 billion litres of water to fill the Lower Lakes. Adelaide’s water supply is 200 gigalitres.