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You may use this calculator to estimate the loss to the public following a pollution incident to England's waterways.
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.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
Guidance to water and sewerage undertakers and the Water Services Regulation Authority under Section 44 of the Flood and Water Management Act.
A framework for water supply reservoirs and flood risk management, and how to apply it.
How to submit water discharge returns using your own XML file based on the Environment Agency’s generic operator returns (GOR) schema.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
A practical guide to utilities for home builders.
The Independent Water Commission will publish its final report on 21 July 2025.
For all organisations that rely on a safe water supply to undertake their business activities.
A guide to making a representation about applications for licences to abstract (take) or impound (store) water.
Meet the ambition and expectations in WISER and follow the WINEP methodology to develop an environmental programme for the price review 2024.
An update on measures to increase the long-term water supply in Greater Cambridge, and to address water scarcity issues in the short-term.
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.
Proposed amalgamation of 2 Internal Drainage Districts, the abolition of the related Internal Drainage Boards and the creation a new Internal Drainage Board
The Environment Agency has received an application from William George Topham, George Topham and Jean Papworth trading as Woodhall Farm Partnership for a licence to abstract (take) water.
Setting alternative objectives to the Water Framework Directive default water body status objectives.
The Independent Water Commission will publish an interim report on 3 June 2025.
Consultation response for the Anglian River Basin District.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
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