across the countryside here they re designed to prevent flooding but that s not exactly a problem these days. there s nothing to regulate here is there there s no water we could do with it it s been a very dry year. together with farmers they are developing a new water management strategy now they intend to use the slew system to stop the water flowing away the farmers need to ensure that water accumulates in coal thousands really accept the fact that in some years it ll be too wet in the meadows more or less flooded really. but we want to help conserve amphibians in cooperation with the rangers. and we ll also need the water at a later stage grow feed for our animals who grazier on the meadow land. in 2018 the meadows produced too little hay for to be as short as cattle and his we