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How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
The Environment Agency’s national investigation into potential breaches of permit conditions at wastewater treatment works by water and sewerage companies.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Fund will help groups of farmers investigate how they can better manage water for use in time of drought, helping to safeguard food security.
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
Guidance and information on flood risk management and surface water management.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
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...
Debts you owe (for example court fines, rent or Council Tax) can be deducted from your benefits – sometimes called third party deductions or Fuel Direct
Study uses soil, climate, crop and livestock data to show intensification strategies to increase crop-livestock system
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
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...
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