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Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect water voles. Find out if you need to pay for the licence and how to report your actions.
For the first time, over 1.2 million ‘eligible’ non-household customers in England can choose their water supplier (from 3 April 2017).
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.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
View a list of applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract or impound water.
How producers can get non-UK natural mineral waters recognised in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), or get UK products recognised overseas.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Information about the Coombe mine water treatment scheme in Cornwall, England.
How to report environmental incidents, including pollution, damage to the natural environment, flooding, illegal fishing or a collapsed river bank.
Use the Water Restoration Fund application form to apply for a grant to restore and improve rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, wetlands or estuarine waters.
The Coal Authority is working with partners to unlock the heat within our historical coal mine network, to transform the homes and workplaces of the future.
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...
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
How to complete a water discharge return.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
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