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The Well Has Run Dry: Victorian Engineers Built 11 Reservoirs. We Can't Build One
Britain Can't Even Build Reservoirs Anymore
Yorkshire Water manages 120 reservoirs, most built by Victorian city corporations or in the post-war reconstruction era. Thruscross was constructed in the 1960s. Grimwith was expanded in 1982. Then, shortly after water privatization in 1989, construction simply stopped.
