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Find out how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Signs that may suggest rabies in bats, what to do if you spot them and measures to prevent exposing yourself to the disease.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
The Water and Abandoned Metal Mines programme aims to tackle the water pollution caused by historical metal mining.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Up to £11 million from water company fines and penalties will be reinvested to directly improve the water environment.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
The UK Health Security Agency's (UKHSA) FW&E laboratories protect the public from significant health threats associated with food, water and environmental hazards.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
How to care for animals on farms and at market in severe hot or cold weather, floods or drought.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
For the first time, over 1.2 million ‘eligible’ non-household customers in England can choose their water supplier (from 3 April 2017).
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
Report a cause of flooding: who to contact for burst water mains, flooded sewers, public drains, roads, rivers
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