The only canal reliably full of water this year has been the Shropshire Union, due to the ministrations of the residents of Wolverhampton.

Though Russian oligarchs had, pre Ukraine invasion, a lot of dodgy money laundered through the City. The different objectives could complement each other.

For god's sake, stop being such a boring old f***!

We aren't short of water, the problem was the amount of water that could be drawn off out of the Honddu at Brecon, as a new agreement was required between CaRT and Dwr Cymru