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The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
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.
For all organisations that rely on a safe water supply to undertake their business activities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Reconstitution of the Waveney, Lower Yare, and Lothingland Internal Drainage Board.
A practical guide to utilities for home builders.
Meet the ambition and expectations in WISER and follow the WINEP methodology to develop an environmental programme for the price review 2024.
Information on the Nutrient Management Plan developed by the Environment Agency, Natural England and Wiltshire Council for the Hampshire Avon.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
This statutory instrument brings the regulatory functions exercised by Ofcom, Ofgem and Ofwat within the scope of the Growth Duty by amending the Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/267) (“the 20…
A guide to making a representation about applications for licences to abstract (take) or impound (store) water.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
How Defra will use your personal information when you submit an application for a site to be designated or de-designated as a bathing water.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
This leaflet explains how abstraction or impoundment licences can be changed to restore sustainable abstraction.
The Independent Water Commission will publish an interim report on 3 June 2025.
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.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
Environment Agency state aid exemption from the European Commission, relating to Water Framework Directive objectives for 2017 to March 2021.
Notices specifying the Thames Tideway Tunnel project and requiring Thames Water to carry out certain preparatory works, including reasons.
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