Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Australian Department of Information
Snowy Waters
StarringHoward Craven
DirectorBern Gandy
11 minDocumentary
Plot
Australia’s greatest engineering undertaking, the Snowy River Hydroelectric Scheme, in the Southern Alps, is changing the geography of an area as big as Switzerland by completely altering the course of streams and rivers, and is intended to bring into agricultural production double the area now served by irrigation, and to provide double Australia’s present output of electrical power.
