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Users of the historic canal have expressed concerns about plans to build a large reservoir.

Thames Water wants to build a 4.5-square-mile (7-sq-km) site near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, which the company says will supply 15 million people in the south-east.

He also advocates building an underground tunnel as part of the infrastructure needed to lower water levels when needed.

However, the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal Trust has said that if the reservoir were built it would be on the canal route and is currently campaigning for the canal to be opened.

The planned reservoir, located between East Hanney and Drayton, would hold 150,000,000 m3 of water from the Thames.