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View a list of applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract or impound water.
The Environment Agency deals with applications for water abstraction and impoundment. The Planning Inspectorate deals with appeals.
Application form to reduce the amount of water on an existing abstraction licence.
How to meet the general binding rules or apply for a permit if you have a septic tank or treatment plant - fees, application forms and exceptions
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
How producers can get non-UK natural mineral waters recognised in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), or get UK products recognised overseas.
Information about the Coombe mine water treatment scheme in Cornwall, England.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
How to apply for a grant for habitat creation using blended public and private funding.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
How to apply for a screening study with the Environment Agency to assess and rank water resources options for farming.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
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.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
Public health advice for prisons and other prescribed places of detention.
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