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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Find out if there’s flooding in your area: flood warnings, flood alerts plus river, sea and groundwater levels.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
An accelerated licensing process may apply to some applications for dredging activity.
The pressures on water flows, a review of actions to address the challenges, plus future challenges and actions.
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
Dozens of new bathing water sites in England have been designated ahead of the 2024 bathing season in the government’s largest ever rollout.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
How catch limits are set and how to get involved in setting them. This includes current catch limits and closed fishing areas.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Plans to maintain water supply resilience have been discussed by National Drought Group members amidst ongoing hot and dry weather.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
What needs to be done to manage flood risk and adapt to rising sea levels in Royal Docks, one of 23 policy units in Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100).
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Find out about our series of sensitivity maps which indicate where there are likely to be fewer sensitivities to woodland creation in England.
This report summarises the results of the first phase of a project to identify nutrient conditions for different levels of ecological status in UK surface waters.
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