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This evidence summary supports the 25 Year Environment Plan and its outcome indicator framework.
How the Environment Agency has determined the baseline length of rivers and estuaries polluted by harmful metals from abandoned metal mines in England.
Examines the effects of nature-based solutions on freshwater environments by synthesising evidence from the scientific literature.
Identifies potential ways to optimise existing bathing water quality communication channels.
Report on the quality of public water supplies and the largest private supplies that serve more than 5,000 consumers or exceed 1,000 cubic metres a day.
A report giving the indicative, catchment-scale source apportionment and estimated diffuse sector reductions required to meet protected area water quality targets.
These are the updated programme of measures for the Upper Costa Beck water body following a review carried out by the Environment Agency in 2024.
Applies recent developments in DNA data analysis to aide our understanding of river diatom communities.
Water temperature projections to 2080 for English chalk streams.
Annual reporting for 2021 on the environmental performance of the 9 water and sewerage companies, including the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA).
Annual reporting for 2020 on the environmental performance of the 9 water and sewerage companies, including the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA).
Report on the quality of all individual supplies of drinking water that exceed 1,000 cubic meters a day or serve more than 5,000 people in England.
This report explains the benefits of the Natural Flood Management Programme and celebrates its successes.
European protected area site objectives, measures to achieve them and specific challenges. Current and potential future mechanisms.
The problem of excess fine sediments, current control mechanisms and future opportunities.
The history and current issues of pollution from abandoned mines, addressing the challenges and future opportunities.
The sources and scale of plastics in the environment, their impact, and how the issue is being tackled.
Reviews alternative approaches to modelling future river water temperature for England.
Presents national-scale trends in the macroinvertebrate communities of English rivers over 29 years.
The urgent global challenge of climate change, current measures and what's needed for the future.
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