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This series brings together all documents relating to water quality and abstraction statistics.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
View a list of applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract or impound water.
Cutting-edge technology being used to help prepare for future droughts
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Monthly water situation reports and weekly rainfall and river flow reports.
Find out how much water is available in your area by viewing Environment Agency abstraction licensing strategies.
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
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