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Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Guidance for inspecting engineers including the reporting of section 10 inspection findings.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
This report looks at the impact that new regulations to increase efficiency in water use are likely to have on sewers and wastewater treatment works.
How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
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.
How to account for VAT if you’re a contractor or subcontractor installing energy-saving materials and grant-funded heating equipment.
How hydroelectric power works, regional schemes and information on installing your own micro-hydro scheme.
This study examines the impact of inadequate water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
This section describes the mechanisms for the efficient and sustainable use of water.
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