Water restructuring

Both Tasmania and Queensland are restructuring their water utility operations.  In SE Queensland the three new bodies are Urban Utilities (out of Brisbane and Ipswich City Councils), Allconnex Water (an unfortunate name as any recent Melburnian would know) (Gold Coast, Logan and Redland Councils), and Unity Water (Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast) where former Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Sorley has recently been named Chairman.  In Tasmania however the dust hasn’t quite settled, according to Opposition Treasury spokesman Peter Gutwein, who says he has discovered that the government is conducting a major review of the three regional water and sewerage corporations.