Kielder Water
From Openwaterpedia
Kielder Water is a large artificial reservoir in Northumberland in northeast England. It is the largest artificial lake in the United Kingdom by capacity and it is surrounded by Kielder Forest, the largest man-made woodland in Europe. 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 and many came to criticise the government-funded project as a white elephant.
Open Water Swimming
Colin Hill was the first person to swim from shore to shore lengthwise on 15 July 2014.
