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A very dry summer in 1937, 1938 resulted in water restrictions being imposed in Melbourne. The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works also started planning for the building of a new dam to expand Melbourne's water supplies in 1940. After the Second World War, the population in Melbourne increased sharply in 1950s, which meant that new water supply requirement occurred. The Upper Yarra Reservoir was completed, tripling Melbourne's total water storage to nearly 300,000 million litres. In the 1960s, many parts of the water supply system in Melbourne were replaced. And following the severe drought of 1967, 1968, the building of Cardinia Reservoir commenced. Work also commenced on diverting part of the flow of the Thomson River in Gippsland into the Upper Yarra River catchment. To meet growing demand in the western suburbs, particularly during summer, a reservoir with a capacity of 27,000 million litres was completed at Greenvale in 1970. Now before I move on to the 1980s, I'd like to say something about.