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Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
What local authorities must do to grant recognition for natural mineral water and carry out ongoing checks.
Support if you’ve been flooded: how to clear up, dispose of contaminated items and sandbags, repair your property.
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is suitable for laboratories that routinely monitor bottled and mineral waters for indicator organisms.
Check the tariff classification for flavour pods.
How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
The Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) is a non-ministerial government department. We are the economic regulator for the water and sewerage sectors in England and Wales. We are responsible for making sure that the companies we regulate provide consumers with...
The differences between the 3 types of bottled water, and what bottled water is exempt from the rules.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
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...
How producers can get non-UK natural mineral waters recognised in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), or get UK products recognised overseas.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water for low levels of indicator organisms.
Information about the Coombe mine water treatment scheme in Cornwall, England.
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.
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