To provide context: • Agricultural abstractions on the River Spey range from 250 m³/day to 1800 m³/day. • Distillery abstractions range from 1200 m³/day to 10,000 m³/day, with most of the water returned to the river as cooling water. • The mean daily flow of the River Spey at Grantown is approximately 3,300,000 m³/day, highlighting the relatively small scale of the proposed abstraction.