Policy

Water and sewerage services

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Environment Agency, and The Water Services Regulation Authority

What the government’s doing about water and sewerage services.

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• Rainfall and river flow: weekly reports for England

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 July 2017

• Choose a water supplier for your business

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Crown Commercial Service
  • Updated: 30 June 2017

• Form WR80: application for a drought permit

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 29 June 2017

• South West Water fined for Devon sewage spill

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 4 April 2017

• Abstraction charges scheme

  • Display type: Statutory guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 April 2017

• Water abstraction returns

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 17 March 2017

• Water abstraction from non-tidal surface water and groundwater

  • Display type: Official Statistics
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 16 March 2017

• Water industry: strategic policy statement to Ofwat 2017

  • Display type: Closed consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 14 March 2017

• Water management and catchment: coordinators and map

  • Display type: Map
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 March 2017

• Water resources planning: managing supply and demand

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 23 February 2017

• Water supply and sewerage licensing (WSSL): water code appeals

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 2 February 2017

• Charity payment after water company permit breach

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 February 2017

• Water industry: draft guidance to Ofwat for water and sewerage connections charges

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 7 December 2016

• Managing water abstraction

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 October 2016

• Water supply and sewerage licencing regime: standard licence conditions

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 20 October 2016

• Land contamination: technical guidance

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 4 August 2016

• London basin chalk aquifer annual status report

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 12 July 2016

• Wye Abstraction Licensing Strategy

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 24 June 2016

• Water supply and sewerage licensing regime: standard licence conditions and approach to secondary legislation

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 17 March 2016

• Thames Water fined £380,000 for pollution of a rural stream

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 March 2016

• Waste water treatment in the UK (2012)

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 29 January 2016

• Post-incident reporting for UK dams: incident report form

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 27 January 2016

• State aid exemption: Water Framework Directive

  • Display type: Statutory guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 January 2016

• Applying water legislation to the Isles of Scilly

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 17 November 2015

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Catchment partnerships in operation: list and map

  • Display type: Map
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 November 2015

• Thames Tideway Tunnel to bring benefits worth up to almost £13bn

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 5 November 2015

• Thames Tideway Tunnel: strategic and economic case, costs and benefits, 2015 update

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 29 October 2015

• Thames Tideway Tunnel: government support package contract documents

  • Display type: Decision
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 7 September 2015

• Water abstraction: application to make minor changes to your license

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 August 2015

• Water abstraction: application to apportion an abstraction licence

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 August 2015

• Water abstraction: transfer an abstraction or impoundment licence

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 August 2015

• Water abstraction: application to revoke (cancel) a licence

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 August 2015

• Water abstraction: reduce the amount you can abstract

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 August 2015

• Planning application process: statutory consultee arrangements

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 2 others
  • Updated: 13 July 2015

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• The Waterways Ombudsman

  • Display type: FOI release
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 23 June 2015

• Catfield Fen: decision on licence application

  • Display type: Decision
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 13 May 2015

• 2010 to 2015 government policy: water and sewerage services

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
  • Updated: 8 May 2015

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• New ground source or surface water source heating and cooling scheme

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 27 March 2015

• Sustainable drainage systems: non-statutory technical standards

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 23 March 2015

• Economics of shale gas

  • Display type: FOI release
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 3 March 2015