{"id":31104,"date":"2016-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/embattled-water-minister-ian-hunter-confident-he-has-premier-s-support\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T00:00:00","slug":"embattled-water-minister-ian-hunter-confident-he-has-premier-s-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/embattled-water-minister-ian-hunter-confident-he-has-premier-s-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Embattled Water Minister confident he has Premier\u2019s support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Water Minister Ian Hunter has defended his absence at the scene of Adelaide metro pipe bursts and is adamant he has the Premier\u2019s support despite Mr Weatherill telling SA Water to lift its game.<\/h3>\n<p>Asked by Leon Byner on FIVEAA whether he had Mr Weatherill\u2019s support, Mr Hunter said: \u201cI believe so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He downplayed the Premier\u2019s public criticism of SA Water after the utility appeared to be struggling to cope with a spate of pipe bursts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Premier talks to all of his minsters about making sure all of our government agencies are responsive,\u201d Mr Hunter said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe rang me and talked to me about how SA Water needs to be more responsive to its customers needs, and I totally agree.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hunter also dismissed a campaign for him to be more visible at pipe bursts, which has seen a cardboard cut-out of the minister appear at break sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not an engineer and I\u2019m not a water technician,\u201d he said. \u201cFor me to turn up and grandstand for the cameras I don\u2019t think is good value.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO IAN HUNTER HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/264995131&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr Hunter said technicians were onsite to fix pipes, not talk to people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we need to have a customer team out there at the same time to let people know how long the outage will be for, when the water will be reconnected, to help them if there\u2019s been any inconvenience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ve asked SA Water to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hunter said he spoke with SA Water after Paradise residents were left in the lurch when a water main burst in March, flooding nearby houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to them they need to improve their game in terms of talking to their customers and letting them know what they\u2019re doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the number of piper busts in SA had been stable for \u201cover 15 years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a peak right now every year, we did last year and we will next year. But the average number of breaks over our 27,000 kilometres of pipe has been stable for the last decade,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/eddie-betts-cheeky-dig-at-patrick-dangerfield\">EDDIE BETT\u2019S CHEEKY DIG AT PATRICK DANGERFIELD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/drug-driver-who-killed-mother-of-three-asks-for-no-jail-time\">LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR MOTHER TRYING TO AVOID JAIL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water Minister Ian Hunter has defended his absence at the scene of Adelaide metro pipe bursts and is adamant he has the Premier\u2019s support despite Mr Weatherill telling SA Water to lift its game. Asked by Leon Byner on FIVEAA whether he had Mr Weatherill\u2019s support, Mr Hunter said: \u201cI believe so.\u201d He downplayed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Embattled Water Minister confident he has Premier\u2019s support - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/embattled-water-minister-ian-hunter-confident-he-has-premier-s-support\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Embattled Water Minister confident he has Premier\u2019s support\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Water Minister Ian Hunter has defended his absence at the scene of Adelaide metro pipe bursts and is adamant he has the Premier\u2019s support despite Mr Weatherill telling SA Water to lift its game. 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