Forged over billions of years Scotland's truly spectacular geological landscape, sculpted continuously throughout time by the ever upward thrusting tectonic plates pushing skywards a great variety of rock types and formations, creating as they shift and slide the majestic mountains, glens, islands, lochs, crags and rocky ridges Scotland has justifiably become famous for worldwide.

Bejewelled with over 35,000 sparkling freshwater lochs and lochans, circa 7,500 in the Western Isles alone, 50 river systems and more than 6,000 miles of mostly rugged coastline – in excess of 11,500 if you include its numerous islands – it is little surprise then that so many Scottish people have such an almost spiritual affinity with water.

The countless hillside burns, streams, rivers, rivulets and underground springs that supply our lochs and estuaries with a steady stream of water are clean and well oxygenated.