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Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain

• Updated: 15 March 2023

Follow national and local rules (byelaws) when freshwater fishing with a rod and line in England and Wales

• Overview

  You must follow national and local rules (byelaws) when freshwater fishing…

• When and where you can fish

  ‘Close seasons’ are seasons when you cannot fish for some types of fish on…

• Fish size and catch limits

  You’re only allowed to keep a certain amount of the fish you catch. These…

• Tackle you can use

  There are rules on how many rods you can use at a time, and the types of…

How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.

• Updated: 13 November 2020

This paper develops initial UK freshwater ecosystem asset and services accounts for 2008 and 2012.The asset accounts are developed only in non-monetary terms; whereas, the ecosystem services accounts are developed in non-monetary and monetary terms. The monetary ecosystem services are...

• Updated: 20 March 2015

What local authorities must do to grant recognition for natural mineral water and carry out ongoing checks.

• Updated: 13 November 2020

Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.

• Updated: 22 July 2019

Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.

• Updated: 16 August 2022

• Updated: 1 January 2012

How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.

• Updated: 28 May 2020