Water quality

Services

Check the quality of your drinking water

Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
Check the quality of beach and bathing water in England

Find out how clean the water is on beaches and in other bathing areas in England, and if there is a problem with pollution
Application to use herbicides in or near water

Use this form if you plan to use herbicides to control weeds in water or on the banks next to a waterbody or watercourse.

General binding rules: small sewage discharge to the ground
- Detailed guide
- 2 October 2023
- Environment Agency
Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits
- Detailed guide
- 10 March 2022
- Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
General binding rules: small sewage discharge to a surface water
- Detailed guide
- 2 October 2023
- Environment Agency
Change, transfer or cancel your environmental permit
- Detailed guide
- 25 August 2023
- Environment Agency
Groundwater source protection zones (SPZs)
- Detailed guide
- 1 August 2019
- Environment Agency

Bathing water success for Lincolnshire and Rutland
- 1 December 2023
- Environment Agency
- Press release
96% of English bathing waters meet required quality standards
- 1 December 2023
- Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Tees programme launched to reduce flood risk and boost nature
- 9 November 2023
- Environment Agency and Natural England
- Press release
Consultation launched to ban wet wipes containing plastic
- 14 October 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Environment Secretary statement on Ofwat performance report
- 26 September 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- News story

Continuous water quality monitoring and event duration monitoring
- 14 September 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 23 May 2023
Water fittings: preventing backflow of water from toilet cisterns
- 12 September 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Welsh Government
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 03 October 2022
Urban waste water treatment: updated sensitive areas maps 2023
- 12 May 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Environment Agency
- Policy paper
Plan for Water: our integrated plan for delivering clean and plentiful water
- 4 April 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
River basin planning process overview
- 30 March 2023
- Environment Agency
- Policy paper

Fluoride concentration in water
- 7 May 2014
- Closed organisation: Public Health England
- Foi release