We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
This research assesses how water vapour travels from the Indian Ocean into the African interior
For the first time, over 1.2 million ‘eligible’ non-household customers in England can choose their water supplier (from 3 April 2017).
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Water company inspections will more than quadruple as the government cracks down on poor performing companies.
How to care for animals on farms and at market in severe hot or cold weather, floods or drought.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect water voles. Find out if you need to pay for the licence and how to report your actions.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Guidance on the National Policy Statements Review process.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
The Environment Agency's portal will allow water industry workers to report serious environmental wrongdoing by their organisations.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
The impacts of urban areas and the transport network on the water environment, with approaches for addressing these and future challenges.
Application form (WPZ1) and guidance (WPZG1) for consent for a 'controlled activity' within the River Dee water protection zone.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Don’t worry we won’t send you spam or share your email address with anyone.