Australia spent 25 years turning a river inland. The result became the country's biggest engineering project

On 17 October 1949, Australia's governor-general, prime minister and the newly appointed head of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority fired the first construction blast at Adaminaby, in the New South Wales high country, launching what would become the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia. The Snowy Mountains Scheme set out to do something that sounds almost implausible on paper: capture water from rivers flowing east off the Snowy Mountains toward the Pacific Ocean and redirect it inland instead, through a network of tunnels and dams, to generate hydroelectric power and irrigate the dry farmland of the Murray and Murrumbidgee river valleys.

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