Policy

Water quality

• 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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• Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 3 April 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: designating 8 beaches in Cornwall

  • 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

  • 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

• Water quality returns to ‘safe’ following Heanor chemical spill

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 26 February 2018

• Cyanide spill in Derbyshire still being assessed

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 February 2018

• Temporary dewatering from excavations to surface water

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 February 2018

• SBRI: point-of-use water treatment for organic-rich surface waters

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Innovate UK
  • Updated: 5 February 2018

• Contractors fined over diesel leak at Christchurch Hospital

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 17 January 2018

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

  • Display type: Closed consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 12 January 2018

• Don't throw plastic or other items at Matlock raft racers

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 December 2017

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

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

• Yorkshire Water fined for raw sewage leak

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 November 2017

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

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 30 November 2017

• UK Government introduces measure to safeguard water supply for England & Wales

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
  • Updated: 16 November 2017

• Bathing waters in England: compliance reports

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 14 November 2017

• Water Framework Directive assessment: estuarine and coastal waters

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 November 2017

• Plausible future scenarios for the water environment to 2030 and 2050

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 November 2017

• Hazard assessment of chemicals used in oil and gas well development

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 10 October 2017

• Minimising risks from fluid reinjection to deep geological formations

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 10 October 2017

• Developing DNA techniques to identify freshwater invertebrates for environmental monitoring

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 10 October 2017

• Updated groundwater vulnerability maps: improvements to methodology and data

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 October 2017

• Salmon in Derbyshire river a first since Industrial Revolution

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 15 September 2017

• Have you checked your heating oil tank?

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 13 September 2017