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The idea of piping water to Melbourne remains a hard sell in rural Victoria

The Government's plan to supplement Melbourne's dwindling water supplies with a pipeline over the great dividing range is a policy u-turn that was announced just months after the last state election. And it is designed to shore up city votes in the lead up to the next one.

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