Policy paper

Water abstraction plan 2017

Setting out how the government will reform the way we manage water abstraction, to protect the environment and improve access to water.

Published 15 December 2017
Last updated 29 May 2018 — see all updates

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Documents

Water abstraction plan

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Water abstraction plan: Environment

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Water abstraction plan: Catchment focus

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Water abstraction plan: Abstraction licensing service

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Timeline: setting out the estimated timescales for how we will apply this plan

PDF, 151KB, 1 page

Details

These documents set out what the government is doing to reform the management of water abstraction. They summarise how we will work with abstractors to make these changes.

The abstraction plan document summarises all the changes we plan to make. It should be read alongside the more detailed documents covering environment, catchment focus and abstraction licensing service.

Published 15 December 2017
Last updated 29 May 2018 + show all updates

1. 29 May 2018 Updated to include the first four Initial Priority Catchments: Idle & Torne in East Midlands, The South Forty Foot in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire (also known as The Black Sluice), East Suffolk in East Anglia and Cam & Ely Ouse in East Anglia.
2. 19 December 2017 Improved the links between the documents to make it clearer that they are all part of a set.
3. 15 December 2017 First published.