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Yes, Adelaide tap water is perfectly safe to drink. These guidelines outline numerous health and aesthetic qualities that our drinking water should meet.
This falls in the ideal range laid out by the Drinking Water Guidelines, even a little soft for some areas. The only category where SA Water did not have per cent compliance with the Drinking Water Guidelines was with free residual chlorine concentrations from an aesthetic perspective. This is a measure of how much chlorine is leftover in the water after it has been disinfected.
Chlorine is added to our water as a disinfectant to prevent harmful bacteria and other organisms from growing. SA Water consistently met this parameter. On some occasions, SA Water measured concentrations up to 2. On average, however, this concentration was at an acceptable aesthetic concentration between 0.
Being at the end of the River Murray, SA Water has to grapple with treating water that has travelled long distances and picked up a whole host of contaminants along the way.
Some areas of regional South Australia have high total dissolved solids which can affect the clarity and taste of the water. High concentrations of chlorine can also lead Adelaide water to taste bad.
Back in the s, the water was considered to be so rancid that many people would drink rainwater instead or disguise the taste with cordial. Today, the water is considered satisfactory but many homes feature water filters to use for drinking water.
The authorities conduct regular testing which indicates any changes in the levels of naturally occurring compounds in the water. However, most homes that have a water filter system in place will never notice any difference in the taste and smell of their drinking water.
Water filters remove most chemicals from tap water including chlorine and ammonia which is added during the water treatment process. Certain things like running your cold water taps for two minutes before you drink it and cook with it can help. However, the best thing you can do is to install water filters and make sure your household plumbing is in working order. If your hot water system is more than 10 years old, you should consider replacing it. We have been in the game for 25 years and specialise in all plumbing services.
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How we deliver your water services. Networks and water treatment facilities. The pipeline network. Replacing water mains. Geraldine Doogue: Well see indeed Minister, as I listen to you there, I'm reminded of walking through as a West Australian, walking through as a child some of those old goldfields towns which were thriving in the late 19th century, and they just died.
Are we talking about regional dying here, and does that have to be faced up to? Karlene Maywald: Well there's absolutely no doubt that water is gold, and you cannot have viable communities out in the regions based on the current industries, without water. Now this is an extreme drought event, and I have no doubt that the end of every dry spell it does rain, we just don't know when it's going to happen.
I believe there is a future for our regional communities, and for our regional industries, and it is a good and healthy future, but we have a difficult -. Geraldine Doogue: But you must have wrestled with this. I know you've got to say this, but I mean this is, as Mike Young, the Adelaide University Professor says, the situation in South Australia is really much, much worse than many people realise.
Have you sat back and thought, 'Is it good ministerial behaviour to prepare people for the fact that this part of their life is over? This section of Australian life has to move to something else. Karlene Maywald: It is, but it's also important to put it in perspective. It is not the end of industry as we know, it certainly isn't. There will be some adjustment, and there will be some people that won't make it through the other side of this drought. There is no doubt about that, and we're working very hard with our community to minimise those long-term impacts.
But from a South Australian perspective and from a national perspective, we understand that we live in a very, very variable climate; we understand that that's likely to become more variable as a consequence of climate change, and also just the natural sequence of drier years, and drier periods.
So we are preparing for that, and our communities are well and truly aware of the issues that they face as a consequence of this drought, but also the longer-term challenge of climate change. Now we have very, very efficient irrigation communities here in the region, particularly in the Riverland. In the Riverland we don't have any open channels at all, it's all piped water, we've got highly efficient irrigators that are using the latest technology in measurement, application, and we've become very, very good at dealing with very difficult circumstances.
Geraldine Doogue: Yes, but I suppose it is a legitimate thing to ask, isn't it, how has it got to this crisis level with this level of planning? Premier Beattie basically rode over the top of all opposition and simply got that recycled water plant up.
And he said he retired happy after he drank that first drink of recycled water. There isn't anything like that actually planned, is there, for South Australia? Karlene Maywald: Oh yes, most definitely. We're also looking at building a desalination plant, we've got a desalination working group that will be reporting in the coming weeks to build a plant in Adelaide. Geraldine Doogue: But this has only just been put back on the agenda, hasn't it?
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