Two new reservoirs are in the pipeline to be built in Somerset as part of a national plan to invest £7.9 billion to improve ...

It comes as the government has given its backing to nine new reservoirs in England, including two in Somerset. The other would be a second reservoir at Cheddar, where survey work has already started.

A quarry could be flooded to become a new reservoir to supply water to thousands of homes in the South West. Plans are in the ...