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How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
A study into the mechanisms of water storage in the unsaturated zone of chalk aquifers.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
A framework for water supply reservoirs and flood risk management, and how to apply it.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management.
How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Fund will help groups of farmers investigate how they can better manage water for use in time of drought, helping to safeguard food security.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
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