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

What the government’s doing about water quality.

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• Temporary dewatering from excavations to surface water

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 16 July 2018

• Groundwater activity exclusions from environmental permits

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 July 2018

• Environment Agency confirms Blue Green Algae in three locations across the Lake District

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 5 July 2018

• Groundwater source protection zones (SPZs)

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 2 July 2018

• River basin management plans: 2015

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 22 June 2018

• Water quality: updating the public and private drinking water regulations

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 24 May 2018

• Drinking water quality: monitoring safety and quality of spring water and bottled drinking water

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 17 May 2018

• South West Water fined for polluting Salcombe and Dartmouth

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 May 2018

• Waste water treatment works: treatment, monitoring and compliance limits

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Site-specific quality numeric permit limits: discharges to surface water and groundwater

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Domestic sewage: discharges to surface water and groundwater

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Calculating dry weather flow (DWF) at waste water treatment works

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Water companies: environmental permits for storm overflows and emergency overflows

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Water companies: water treatment works discharge limits for environmental permits

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Water companies: control of chemicals used for dosing at waste water treatment works

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Reservoir discharges: consents, permits and risk assessments

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Water companies: operator self monitoring (OSM) environmental permits

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Water discharge and groundwater activity environmental permits

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 8 May 2018

• Bathing waters: list of designated waters in England

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 2 May 2018

• Bathing waters in England: compliance reports

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 1 May 2018

• Application for new ground source or surface water source heating and cooling scheme: part B8

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 3 April 2018

• Groundwater risk assessment for your environmental permit

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 3 April 2018

• Infiltration systems: groundwater risk assessments

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 3 April 2018

• Open-loop heat pump systems: permits, consents and licences

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 3 April 2018

• Farming rules for water from April 2018

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 2 April 2018

• Rules for farmers and land managers to prevent water pollution

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 2 April 2018

• Bathing waters: removing Instow from the list of designated bathing waters

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 29 March 2018

• Groundwater protection position statements

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 22 March 2018

• Abstraction Licences Charging Scheme

  • Display type: Statutory guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 21 March 2018

• Environmental costs and benefits at the site of the London 2012 Olympics

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 20 March 2018

• Catchment Partnership Fund: projects funded

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 16 March 2018

• Bathing Waters: removing Silloth from the list of designated bathing waters

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 15 March 2018

• Bathing waters: designation of Manor Steps beach, Bournemouth

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 15 March 2018

• Bathing waters: designating 8 beaches in Cornwall

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 15 March 2018

• Bathing waters

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 2 March 2018

• Water quality information at swimming beaches and lakes

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 2 March 2018

• Assessment of sediment phosphorus capping to control nutrient concentrations in English lakes

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 2 March 2018

• A DNA based metabarcoding approach to assess diatom communities in rivers

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 2 March 2018

• Cemeteries and burials: prevent groundwater pollution

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 27 February 2018