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What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
The differences between the 3 types of bottled water, and what bottled water is exempt from the rules.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Application form to reduce the amount of water on an existing abstraction licence.
How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to apply for a screening study with the Environment Agency to assess and rank water resources options for farming.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
The Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) is a non-ministerial government department. We are the economic regulator for the water and sewerage sectors in England and Wales. We are responsible for making sure that the companies we regulate provide consumers with...
How to change, revoke or transfer your licence, including if the licence holder dies or becomes bankrupt and find out when changes can be enforced.
Fibre in Water (FiW) is an open competition, run by DCMS from HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund and supported by DEFRA, BEIS and Cabinet Office. It will allocate up to £4 million of R&D funding to projects that develop and...
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
The hydrological information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
As a business, you'll have to pay for any water you use, and for the drainage of water and any effluent (liquid waste) you produce
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