Water quality
Services
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Check the quality of your drinking water
Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
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Apply for a grant from the natural environment investment readiness fund
Grants to prepare innovative nature projects in England that can attract private financial investment. Find out what the fund is for and how to apply.
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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
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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.
Guidance and regulation
- General binding rules: small sewage discharge to a surface water
- Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits
- General binding rules: small sewage discharge to the ground
- Change, transfer or cancel your environmental permit
- Groundwater source protection zones (SPZs)
News and communications
- Review of regulatory controls to strengthen protections for water environment
- Yorkshire Water billed £150,000 for discharging sewage effluent
- Thames staycationers urged to become #WaterWarriors this summer
- Staycationers urged to become #WaterWarriors this summer
- Innovative nature projects awarded funding to drive private investment
Research and statistics
- Natural Flood Management Programme: initial findings
- Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs): challenges for the water environment
- Chemicals: challenges for the water environment
- Phosphorus: challenges for the water environment
- Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS): challenges for the water environment
Policy papers and consultations
- River basin planning: draft river basin management plans
- Severn Draft River Basin Management Plan summary and cross border catchments (England and Wales)
- River basin planning: progress report
- River basin planning programmes of measures: mechanisms summary
- Summary of the draft river basin management plans