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How water companies in England and Wales can comply with the statutory requirement for preparing and publishing PIRPs and Implementation Reports.
How the Environment Agency considers competing proposals to abstract water and what to do if the Environment Agency has said your application is competing with one or more other proposals.
For all organisations that rely on a safe water supply to undertake their business activities.
Guidance for groundwater specialists explaining direct inputs, discernibility and permanently unsuitable.
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
A guide to making a representation about applications for licences to abstract (take) or impound (store) water.
You can use the voluntary remediation advice service to get more detailed site-specific regulatory advice where land contamination has impacted on controlled waters.
Find out what information must be displayed at designated bathing waters.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
How water companies plan for dry weather and drought to make sure they can supply water and protect the environment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers.
The Environment Agency has issued this guideline to water undertakers that are wholly or mainly in England.
Guidance on long duration water abstraction licences.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for discharges from an open loop ground source heating and cooling system. Then register this exemption.
You may use this calculator to estimate the loss to the public following a pollution incident to England's waterways.
Environment Agency regulatory position on wetlands, operated by parties other than water and sewerage companies, that receive treated final effluent discharge.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
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