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A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Check the tariff classification for a heat and moisture exchanging filter.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
How producers can get non-UK natural mineral waters recognised in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), or get UK products recognised overseas.
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
What local authorities must do to grant recognition for natural mineral water and carry out ongoing checks.
Application form to reduce the amount of water on an existing abstraction licence.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
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