THERE IS A SCHEME to transfer water from the Midlands to the South East using part of the Grand Union Canal.
This is a £200m joint venture between Severn Trent, Affinity Water and the Canal & River Trust to move water from the Midlands to the South East as pressure grows on national supplies, reports Roger Fox.
The scheme will start in the Midlands with highly treated recycled water pumped through a new 10km underground pipeline to the Coventry Canal at Atherstone.
Flow through canal network
From there the water will flow though the canal network towards Luton for final treatment.
Severn Trent tell the project aims to get ahead of long-term supply risks driven by population growth, climate change and the need to protect fragile ecosystems.
The map actually shows the water flowing from Atherstone to Hillmorton, but this is the Coventry Canal and not the Grand Union, and the map shows Atherstone in the wrong place as North of Coventry, with the water somehow flowing up the flight of locks!