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The amount of water held in England’s reservoirs stood at just 65% of total capacity at the end of last month – the lowest level for that point in the calendar year since 1995.
Rank Name Country County Grid Ref. Location Maximum volume m 3 [1] Planning date Completion date 26 Abberton: England: Essex: TL9810018300 39,000,000: 1935 [i]: 1939 175
Taff Fechan reservoirs - a chain of four reservoirs also supplying the Taff valley and Cardiff with water Upper Neuadd Reservoir; Lower Neuadd Reservoir; Doly y gaer Reservoir [9] Pontsticill Reservoir; Elan Valley Reservoirs - a group of reservoirs supplying Birmingham and parts of the West Midlands conurbation with drinking water Claerwen ...
Name [1] Location Area (km 2) Designated Description Image Abberton Reservoir: Essex: 7.26 24 July 1981 An artificial body of water with populations of golden plover, gadwall, shoveller, teal and cormorants.
In winter, when the flow in the River Medway exceeds 275 million litres per day, river water is pumped to the reservoir for storage. There is an outlined plan to raise the water level by a further three metres with intentions of increasing the yield by up to 30% to help with the growing water demand in Southeast England.
Worthington Reservoir Dam between Worthington and Arley reservoirs. Worthington Lakes is a series of three reservoirs in the north of the borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (from south to north: Worthington, Arley and Adlington) close to nearby Standish, off the A5106 Wigan to Chorley road in the north-west of England. They were constructed ...
After 15 years of a devastating drought, reservoirs in Chile are running dry, imperiling access to drinking water in the Andean nation. The Cogoti reservoir in the Coquimbo region of northern ...
The scheme was planned in the late 1960s to satisfy an expected rise in demand for water to support a booming UK industrial economy. But the decline of traditional heavy industry, together with more water-efficient industrial processes and better control of water supply leakage, served to undermine the original justification for the reservoir ...