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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.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Lassa virus causes Lassa fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF).
Information on depleted uranium (DU) including what it is, its uses, health effects and protection from exposure.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
The dangers of flash flooding and how to stay safe.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
This guidance provides definitions for some commonly-used terms on the subject of marine licensing.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
Information and minutes for OSPAR, REACH and research groups and forums for offshore oil and gas.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
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.
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.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
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