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Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
External quality assessment (EQA) of water microbiology.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water for low levels of indicator organisms.
External quality assessment (EQA) scheme suitable for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water, examining for low levels of indicator organisms.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water, examining for low levels of indicator organisms.
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...
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
For the first time, over 1.2 million ‘eligible’ non-household customers in England can choose their water supplier (from 3 April 2017).
This section describes the mechanisms protecting the quality or quantity of water used for drinking water supplies.
National Drought Group confirms water resources are healthy in first meeting this year
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.
Seeking views on updating the public and private drinking water regulations in England.
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