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The Irish government has announced its approval of a €5 billion (about $5.4 billion) project to construct a water pipeline from the River Shannon to Dublin.
The project will involve extracting water from the Shannon at Parteen Basin downstream of Lough Derg and transporting it via pipeline through counties Tipperary, Offaly, and Kildare to a reservoir in Peamount, County Dublin.
The 170-kilometer (105-mile) pipeline is described by the government as "one of the largest and most important infrastructure projects in the history of the State.
Construction is anticipated to take approximately five years.
