Water quality
Services
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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 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 a surface water
- General binding rules: small sewage discharge to the ground
- Groundwater source protection zones (SPZs)
- Cemeteries and burials: prevent groundwater pollution
- Domestic sewage: discharges to surface water and groundwater
News and communications
- New £10 million fund to drive private sector investment in nature
- The jury's out on River Ouseburn future
- Taskforce sets goal to end pollution from storm overflows
- Stark warning to several water companies as environmental performance fails to improve
- Consultation launched on bathing water status for River Wharfe
Research and statistics
- Oestrogenic effects in wild fish: comparing contemporary and historical impacts
- Mapping of brackish aquifers and deep sourced springs
- Perspectives on protection of deep groundwater
- Impacts on groundwater from shale gas production in northern England
- Northern Ireland environmental statistics report 2020
Policy papers and consultations
- River basin planning: Challenges and Choices
- National FCERM strategy: Strategic Environmental Assessment scoping report
- Bathing waters: removing Allonby South from the list of designated bathing waters
- River basin planning: working together
- Urban waste water treatment: updated sensitive areas maps 2019