Grafham Water

I think that's the same one that's, that's sitting, um, in East Norfolk still.

Um, and the Cape Gull that turned up in West Yorkshire for two days in April, that was put down as the same bird that had turned up at Grafham Water twice, 2023 and 2024.

Um, so I'd, I'd be interested in reading more about the analysis of, of how they firmed up that that was the same bird.

I don't know to what degree.

And then also technicalities of the course come in.

So something like Grafham, if that's a wet day, it's a lovely course, but then there's different challenges that come with that.

But then you've got something like Dorney, where even if it's wet, it's pancake flat, visibility is great, so you're going to be fine no matter what.

So I think course recces are a massive thing.

We'll look at how we're securing water supplies against climate change and meeting more intensive demand than ever before.

So join me and my guests, all peerless experts on water resource management at the Grafham Water Reservoir in Cambridgeshire on this week's Eastern Promise.

I think it was those great chroniclers of the human condition, Bananarama, who observed that it's a cruel, cruel summer.

So it proved.

Indeed, the very morning I met my three guests at Grafham Water, a reservoir close to Huntingdon, its owner and operator, Anglian Water, announced a hosepipe ban.

MUSIC The growing demand for water, whether from existing homes and businesses, from new developments or agriculture, has long been a concern in the east of England, the driest part of the UK.

Throw in climate change and these concerns only grow.

That is hard.

Do you remember the events that we've done on, like, Grafham, say? There's been a few events in the past where they'll run a kayak event and a boat event simultaneously.

And, like, you know, the kayak guys, rightly so, they go off five minutes before us with our boats with engines on.

And they're across the other side of the lake before we get there with an engine, aren't they? It's