Whiteadder Reservoir is a reservoir in East Lothian, Scotland, UK, in the Lammermuir Hills, 11 miles (18 km) north west of Duns in the Scottish Borders, and five miles (8 km) south east of Garvald.
The reservoir was established in the late 1960s. The flooding ceremony was in May 1968. Millknown Farm and Kingside School were flooded.
Whiteadder reservoir supplies East Lothian and Berwickshire, including Cockenzie Power Station on the northern coast of East Lothian, and is fed by the Whiteadder Water, the lowest tributary of the River Tweed which it enters at Berwick-on-Tweed.
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