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How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
The pressures on water flows, a review of actions to address the challenges, plus future challenges and actions.
Human error blamed as enough water to fill 300,000 baths taken without Environment Agency licence
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Find out how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
Yorkshire Water is sentenced for polluting Pools Brook Country Park stream three times in less than a year.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
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