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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.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
Fibre in Water (FiW) is an open competition, run by DCMS from HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund and supported by DEFRA, BEIS and Cabinet Office. It will allocate up to £4 million of R&D funding to projects that develop and...
Guidance on the pre-application stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Application form to reduce the amount of water on an existing abstraction licence.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
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.
This guidance provides information on COVID-19 in homelessness, domestic abuse refuge, respite room and asylum seeker accommodation settings.
How producers can get non-UK natural mineral waters recognised in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), or get UK products recognised overseas.
The Environment Agency deals with applications for water abstraction and impoundment. The Planning Inspectorate deals with appeals.
Information on depleted uranium (DU) including what it is, its uses, health effects and protection from exposure.
How to minimise the risk of disease from animal wool and hair, register your site, and dispose of materials you don't want.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management.
How to meet the general binding rules or apply for a permit if you have a septic tank or treatment plant - fees, application forms and exceptions
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