The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a pipeline and dam project which delivers potable water to communities in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields, particularly Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. The project was commissioned in 1896 and was completed in 1903.
The pipeline continues to operate today, supplying water to over 100,000 people in over 33,000 households as well as mines, farms and other enterprises.
Read more about Goldfields Water Supply Scheme: Water Scarcity, Origins of The Scheme, Construction and Criticism, Pipeline, Dam, Mundaring Weir Branch Railway, Design Challenges, Pumping Stations, Centenary, Pipe Dreams, Lower Helena Dam
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