Kielder water transfer scheme

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Last updated 2:14 PM on 4/28/26
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What is it?

  • transferring water in water surplus up North to areas of water deficit down south

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facts

  • 250 square miles of water involved

  • 200 billion litres of ocean water

  • opened in 1982

  • largest man made lake in the UK

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positives

  • increase in jobs and tourism to the lake

  • hydroelectric power

  • can suite demand for fresh water as the population is increasing

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What are the negatives?

  • £167 million to build

  • peoples houses need to be relocated

  • damages fish breeding patterns