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Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
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.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
The dangers of flash flooding and how to stay safe.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
Increase flood resilience with Natural Flood Management
How hydroelectric power works, regional schemes and information on installing your own micro-hydro scheme.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
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