Cleaning one of London's huge reservoirs while keeping the water flowing

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They are the filled with the same amount of water that would be used in 8,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools but chances are you may never have spotted the giant reservoirs along the River Thames.

One of them is in Walton-on-Thames and stores around 10 per cent of all water supplied to London every year. Understandably servicing it can get complicated.