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Work is about to start on a series of innovative climate services that use the unique vantage point of space to provide businesses and other organisations with information about environmental risks and how to mitigate them.
The Water and Abandoned Metal Mines programme aims to tackle the water pollution caused by historical metal mining.
This project looked at the attitudes and perceptions of households, industry, government and NGOs to freshwater pollution
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How to report environmental incidents, including pollution, damage to the natural environment, flooding, illegal fishing or a collapsed river bank.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
Judge - Thames Water "deliberately misled" the Environment Agency in and around pollution of rivers in Sussex and Surrey in which several thousand fish died.
Find out how clean the water is on beaches and in other bathing areas in England, and if there is a problem with pollution
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
You may use this calculator to estimate the loss to the public following a pollution incident to England's waterways.
The Environment Agency's portal will allow water industry workers to report serious environmental wrongdoing by their organisations.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
This section describes mechanisms for agricultural and non-agricultural diffuse source pollution.
Investigations of how best to improve water quality in the River Wear catchment by reducing pollution from historical metal mining.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
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