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How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
The hydrological and hydraulic information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
For all organisations that rely on a safe water supply to undertake their business activities.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
Guidance to water and sewerage undertakers and the Water Services Regulation Authority under Section 44 of the Flood and Water Management Act.
A joint statement between DLUHC, Defra, the Environment Agency and Greater Cambridge councils (Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire districts) on measures to address water scarcity issues in the area.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
The Environment Agency has issued this guideline to water undertakers that are wholly or mainly in England.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
How water companies plan for dry weather and drought to make sure they can supply water and protect the environment.
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