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How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
Planting the right tree, in the right place, can help manage flooding, improve water quality, and support aquatic habitats. Find out more in the collection of resources below.
How to report environmental incidents, including pollution, damage to the natural environment, flooding, illegal fishing or a collapsed river bank.
Background, evidence and analysis on challenges affecting the water environment.
Fund will help groups of farmers investigate how they can better manage water for use in time of drought, helping to safeguard food security.
Calculate nutrient budgets for developments in the catchment of Esthwaite Water Ramsar.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
What to do if you’re about to be flooded and during flooding: who to contact, how to stay safe, how to report a problem.
How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
Product Recall for Hunter price licensed hot water bottles presenting a burns risk.
The Environment Agency's portal will allow water industry workers to report serious environmental wrongdoing by their organisations.
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