Kielder Water
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Kielder Water is a large man-made reservoir in Northumberland in North East England. It is the largest artificial lake in the United Kingdom by capacity of water and it is surrounded by Kielder Forest
Kielder Dam in 2007
Kielder Water under construction in the 1970s.
White elephant
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A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage,
Kielder Water
…of water supply leakage, served to undermine the original justification for the reservoir and the government-funded project has been criticised as a white elephant. Kielder Water is owned by Northumbrian Water, and holds 200 gigalitres (44 billion imperial gallons), making it the largest artificial reservoir in…
A white elephant at the Amarapura Palace in 1855
Boothtown Aqueduct, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia