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How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How to report environmental incidents, including pollution, damage to the natural environment, flooding, illegal fishing or a collapsed river bank.
View a list of applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract or impound water.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
The Coal Authority is working with partners to unlock the heat within our historical coal mine network, to transform the homes and workplaces of the future.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Background, evidence and analysis on challenges affecting the water environment.
Use the postal form LT4WD if you're a landfill site operator, to agree to a waste producer's water discount scheme application.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is suitable for laboratories that routinely monitor recreational and surface water.
Use this form to apply for administrative or minor changes to a water abstraction licence.
How to apply for a screening study with the Environment Agency to assess and rank water resources options for farming.
FCDO travel advice for Brazil. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Apply for a screening study with the Environment Agency to assess and rank water resources options in your area.
Information about the Coombe mine water treatment scheme in Cornwall, England.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
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