Policy

Water quality

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

What the government’s doing about water quality.

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• Southern Water to pay £57,218

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 6 September 2016

• Farmer fined for polluting stream with slurry

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 24 August 2016

• Help sought to find source of Derwent Pollution

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 27 July 2016

• Catchment Partnership Fund: projects funded between April 2015 and March 2016

  • Display type: Corporate report
  • From: Environment Agency and 1 others
  • Updated: 20 July 2016

• Water quality information at swimming beaches and lakes

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency and 1 others
  • Updated: 1 July 2016

• Drinking Water Regulations: changes to include monitoring for radioactive substances

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 26 May 2016

• The Groundwater (Water Framework Directive) (England) Direction 2016

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 26 May 2016

• Bathing waters: list of designated waters in England

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 24 May 2016

• Contaminated land: capital projects funding

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency and 1 others
  • Updated: 17 May 2016

• Water quality testing begins at bathing beaches

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 May 2016

• Water resources planning

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 10 May 2016

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

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 6 May 2016

• Bathing waters

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 6 May 2016

• Bathing waters: designation of West Runton

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 6 May 2016

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

  • Display type: Closed consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 6 May 2016

• Collaborative research priorities for the Environment Agency

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 19 April 2016

• Managing and reducing land contamination: guiding principles (GPLC)

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 13 April 2016

• Catchment Sensitive Farming: reduce agricultural water pollution

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Natural England
  • Updated: 4 April 2016

• Abstraction charges scheme

  • Display type: Statutory guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 April 2016

• Water Framework Directive: shellfish protected areas

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 3 March 2016

• Infiltration systems: groundwater risk assessments

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 1 February 2016

• Landfill developments: groundwater risk assessment for leachate

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 1 February 2016

• Groundwater risk assessment for your environmental permit

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 1 February 2016

• Dewatering building sites and other excavations: environmental permits

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Environment Agency and 1 others
  • Updated: 1 February 2016

• Cutting vegetation in inland freshwater: environmental permit exemption

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 1 February 2016

• Tracer tests and remediation schemes: environmental permit exemption

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 1 February 2016

• Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 1 February 2016

• Bathing waters: removing Lyme Regis Church Cliff Beach from the list of designated bathing waters

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 26 January 2016

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

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 26 January 2016

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

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 26 January 2016

• Catchment Partnership Fund: projects funded between April 2014 and March 2015

  • Display type: Corporate report
  • From: Environment Agency and 1 others
  • Updated: 18 January 2016

• State aid exemption: Water Framework Directive

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

• Largest fine for South West Water after pollution of Devon stream

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 November 2015

• Showcase Cornish farm hosts Environment Agency Chairman

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 November 2015

• Force Crag mine water treatment scheme opens in Cumbria

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 20 November 2015

• Catchment partnerships in operation: list and map

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

• Bathing waters in England: 2015 compliance report

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 5 November 2015

• Environment Agency warns maize harvesting can result in run-off and pollution

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 22 October 2015

• Sniffer dog to help protect water vole colony

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 12 October 2015

• New rules to tackle diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England

  • Display type: Closed consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 30 September 2015