FIVEaa's weekend gardening and lifestyle expert Michael Keelan has won a long running battle to have the Carmelite Fountain at the top of Glen Osmond Road switched back on.
The fountain, at the gateway to Adelaide for tourists arriving from eastern states, was switched off several years ago amid Transport Department claims it used over a million litres of water a year.
The host of Adelaide's number one rating weekend breakfast program led the fight to overturn the decision and in the process discovered the fountain only used between 100 and 250 thousand litres annually.
"The government is to be applauded for listening to common sense," Mr Keelan said today. "If the fountain was to be left switched off, the government should've demolished it."
FIVEaa General Manager Paul Bartlett says, "This is another example of the power of talkback radio, personalities who believe in the issues they fight for and FIVEaa's ability to make Adelaide a better place."