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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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 the ground
- Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits
- General binding rules: small sewage discharge to a surface water
- Change, transfer or cancel your environmental permit
- Groundwater source protection zones (SPZs)
News and communications
- Companies hit with fines after sewage kills thousands of fish
- North Yorkshire project brings water quality boost to River Wiske
- Delivering the water quality we all want to see
- Bathing water season begins in Devon and Cornwall
- Bathing water season begins for 2022
Research and statistics
- Agriculture and rural land management: challenges for the water environment
- Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance for 2020
- Drinking water quality in England, 2017 to 2019
- Natural Flood Management Programme: initial findings
- Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs): 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