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This guide explains the problems and risks which may come from extreme weather, how to mitigate them and how you can make your reservoir more resilient. You can read each section in isolation, or as a whole document.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
The Environment Agency’s national investigation into potential breaches of permit conditions at wastewater treatment works by water and sewerage companies.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
Product Recall for Northern Diver Transit Suit presenting a risk of thermal exposure.
Cutting-edge technology being used to help prepare for future droughts
Fibre in Water (FiW) is an open competition, run by DCMS from HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund and supported by DEFRA, BEIS and Cabinet Office. It will allocate up to £4 million of R&D funding to projects that develop and...
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
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