We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Where you may find asbestos, how to reduce the risk of exposing it, when you need a licensed contractor and how to deal with asbestos waste.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
Environment Agency prosecutes after routine sampling results. Court told how water company broke permitted levels 3 times in 10 months.
FCDO travel advice for Colombia. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
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.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Support if you’ve been flooded: how to clear up, dispose of contaminated items and sandbags, repair your property.
How the Environment Agency manages water resources in the Old Bedford catchment.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
How to manage Eurasian beavers on your land without a licence and when you need a licence in England.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
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.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).