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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.
How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Dozens of new bathing water sites in England have been designated ahead of the 2024 bathing season in the government’s largest ever rollout.
Information about the Coombe mine water treatment scheme in Cornwall, England.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
The Environment Agency's portal will allow water industry workers to report serious environmental wrongdoing by their organisations.
The Water and Abandoned Metal Mines programme aims to tackle the water pollution caused by historical metal mining.
The UK Government will introduce new world-leading legislation to ban wet wipes containing plastic.
Water company inspections will more than quadruple as the government cracks down on poor performing companies.
The company faces a series of alleged offences across Cornwall and in Plymouth for a six year period between 2015 and 2021.
100% of storm overflows now fitted with monitoring devices required by the government.
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