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Seeking views on updating toilet specifications to stop cistern water from re-entering drinking water in properties and to understand the causes of leaking toilet valves.
Explores England’s long term water needs, setting out the scale of action needed to ensure resilient supplies and an improved water environment.
Foreword by Alan Lovell, Chair, Environment Agency Huge pressure already…
Water is vital to life and livelihoods. Without water, there is no…
A clean and plentiful supply of water is essential to a thriving economy,…
The modelling of scenarios of population growth, climate change and…
There are several routes for getting access to water, each differing in…
5.1 Achieving environmentally sustainable abstraction: action to date…
The forecast deficit over the next decades demonstrates that a range…
Water is vital for use in the production of energy, and energy is vital to…
Secure and reliable water supplies are vital for food production, food…
9.1 Multi-sector water scarcity Various sectors across England rely on…
The Environment Agency's approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the London catchment.
1. About the licensing strategy This strategy sets out our approach to…
We want your views on our proposed new levy on certain water discharge activities carried out by water companies, designed to fully recover the costs of our enforcement activities.
Defra is seeking views on draft information and guidance on storm overflows. This aims to support water companies and regulators in carrying out their responsibilities to reduce the use of storm overflows.
We want your views on updates to the guideline that water companies in England must follow when they prepare and publish their drought plans by 2027.
The Environment Agency’s approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the North Devon area.
The Environment Agency’s approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the North Cornwall, Seaton, Looe and Fowey area.
The Environment Agency's approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the Aire and Calder catchment.
Seeking views on changes to the guaranteed minimum standards of service all customers are entitled to in the water and sewerage sector.
The Environment Agency’s approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the Tamar catchment
Plan for managing navigation on the Rivers Wye and Lugg.
This strategy sets out our purpose, principles and priorities for how we will enable safe and sustainable sludge use on land.
Sets out how the Environment Agency plans to manage water in the middle River Severn catchment in Worcestershire.
A licensing strategy to manage water resources sustainably.
We want your comments on the proposed redesign of the WINEP and the roadmap which sets out our ambition and plan for long-term change.
Strategic policy statement setting out the government’s priorities for Ofwat’s regulation of the water sector in England.
This abstraction licensing strategy sets out how surface and ground water resources are to be managed in the Wye catchment.
We propose to apply EPR charges and abstraction charges to the Isles of Scilly and amend EPR charges to include fusion activities in nuclear regulation.
Sets out how the Environment Agency plans to manage water in the Middle Severn Catchment.
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