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Who was the famous but tragic engineer who brought a fresh water supply to the Western Australia Goldfields?
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Charles Yelverton O'Connor was the engineer who built the pipeline to bring water from Perth to the goldfields in Western Australia.
O'Connor was a brilliant and forward-thinking man whose innovative genius simply wasn't recognized. He took his own life on 10 March 1902 after encountering constant criticism and obstacles to the project.
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Who brought fresh water to the goldfields in Western Australia?
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