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South Australia like much of the country is in the midst of a housing Supply and affordability crisis the state government has released huge amounts of land and already poured hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into trying to counter the enormous challenge the state government is seeking to do everything we reasonably can as quickly as we can to have a positive impact on the housing market but that impact is being blunted by a lack of of water infrastructure it is as simple as if we can't get water to a house and take waste away from the house there's no point in building it because no one's going to want to live there it's extremely constrained it's extremely constrained we have hit the absolute the absolute limits of our capacity in the northern suburbs which the minister says means some developments have stalled in adela's expanding Northern Fringe we simply don't have enough sewage capacity and we are at the risk of low water pressure across the northern suburbs if we do more connections without upgrading the infrastructure for a developed country and a state as wealthy as ours it is unfathomable that there is not enabling infrastructure water and sewage of all infrastructure in the north of Adela what I'm hearing from Members right now is that it is incredibly difficult to get even the simplest approvals out of sa water uh the difficulty that that is creating is meaning the possible shutdown of the Housing Industry across grader approvals are needed to build new homes data provided to ABC news shows sa water issued 267 approvals so far this financial year only 50 of those were granted in 2024 the corporation says it doesn't have a policy of limiting approvals but acknowledges it's not keeping up with demand a spokesperson said to ensure service levels weren't compromised and to protect the Integrity of infrastructure we can only issue approvals on the basis the network capacity and services are available you don't arrive at a crisis overnight this is a problem that's been building over multiple election Cycles the Marshal liberal government really did drop the ball what just wasn't on the horizon this is Labor's problem to fix details about the state government's plans to try and fix the water woves are said to be made public within days when it releases its soall housing road map a decision from the state's essential Services Commission is also imminent about how much revenue sa water can collect from customers over the next 4 years which will help determine how much bills will go up by if we don't get meaningful action from government meaningful investment in infrastructure uh we could be facing a valley of death for housing construction at a time when we need to be bringing workers in to work on so many of the projects that the state government has lined up the best time to start was 4 years ago uh the second best time is right now there's a warning though even if the government floods the problem with extra money any fix will take time to deliver Rory McLaren ABC News