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Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
What local authorities must do to grant recognition for natural mineral water and carry out ongoing checks.
For the first time, over 1.2 million ‘eligible’ non-household customers in England can choose their water supplier (from 3 April 2017).
£11.5m extra funding announced to boost tree planting, habitat restoration and flood management across England through the Water Environment Improvement Fund.
Fibre in Water (FiW) is an open competition, run by DCMS from HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund and supported by DEFRA, BEIS and Cabinet Office. It will allocate up to £4 million of R&D funding to projects that develop and...
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
Attention is coalescing around water and climate change, and the agendas for water security and climate action are converging.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
This section describes the mechanisms to control abstraction and impoundment of water, and mechanisms to protect water resources that are used for abstraction.
Dozens of new bathing water sites in England have been designated ahead of the 2024 bathing season in the government’s largest ever rollout.
Setting out plans for supporting long-term resilience in the water sector.
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