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Information on depleted uranium (DU) including what it is, its uses, health effects and protection from exposure.
Information about the Coombe mine water treatment scheme in Cornwall, England.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
How producers can get non-UK natural mineral waters recognised in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), or get UK products recognised overseas.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
How to change, revoke or transfer your licence, including if the licence holder dies or becomes bankrupt and find out when changes can be enforced.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Information for companies on the import and export of controlled drugs to and from the UK.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
An innovation competition aiming to accelerate commercialisation of innovative longer duration energy storage projects.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
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