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Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
Planting the right tree, in the right place, can help manage flooding, improve water quality, and support aquatic habitats. Find out more in the collection of resources below.
This study assesses the formal and informal systems used by institutions with regulatory requirements for testing drinking water quality
An annual update (until 2009) that measures chemical and biological river water quality. New indicator in development.
Paper discusses water quality modelling approaches and their use at provincial level in China
Good practice guidance for designing and reviewing routine water quality monitoring programmes at UK Nuclear Licensed Sites.
Annual statistics showing if bathing waters in England meet regulatory standards.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
Seeking views on implementing the EU Directive 2015/1787 on the safety and quality of spring water and bottled drinking water.
Details of bathing water quality for 2021
Using in situ tryptophan-like fluorescence and conventional water quality indicators
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.
2024 Bathing Water Compliance results. Bathing water quality is monitored by DAERA Marine and Fisheries Division. One of its responsibilities is to ensure coastal waters are of high enough quality for the general public to bathe in.
Details of bathing water quality for 2019
A summary of compliance with the (2006/7/EC) Bathing Water Directive.
This document is aimed at practitioners of water resources management who are interested in employing the Qual2K water quality model
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