Water projects 'not needed' ...

The controversial $750 million north-south pipeline is unnecessary and the desalination plant could have been avoided with greater efforts to cut water use, according to top-level advice delivered to the State Government just weeks before both projects were announced.

The advice was contained in a secret, cabinet-commissioned water plan delivered to ministers early in June 2007.

Two weeks later, the Government revealed its $4.9 million water plan, including the Wonthaggi desalination plant and north-south pipeline.

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