Skip to main content

Cookies on GOV.UK

We use some essential cookies to make this website work.

We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.

We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.

View cookies

You have accepted additional cookies. You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.

GOV.UK

Navigation menu

Menu
Search GOV.UK

Topics

  • Benefits
  • Births, death, marriages and care
  • Business and self-employed
  • Childcare and parenting
  • Citizenship and living in the UK
  • Cost of living support
  • Crime, justice and the law
  • Disabled people
  • Driving and transport
  • Education and learning
  • Employing people
  • Environment and countryside
  • Housing and local services
  • Money and tax
  • Passports, travel and living abroad
  • Visas and immigration
  • Working, jobs and pensions

Government activity

  • Departments

    Departments, agencies and public bodies

  • News

    News stories, speeches, letters and notices

  • Guidance and regulation

    Detailed guidance, regulations and rules

  • Research and statistics

    Reports, analysis and official statistics

  • Policy papers and consultations

    Consultations and strategy

  • Transparency

    Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports

Search

Popular on GOV.UK

  • Check benefits and financial support you can get
  • Find out about the Energy Bills Support Scheme
  • Find a job
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Universal Credit account: sign in
  1. Home
  2. Environmental management
Environmental management

Water: detailed information

From:
Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, The Water Services Regulation Authority , Consumer Council for Water, Crown Commercial Service
Show 8 more
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Department of Health and Social Care, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Lake District National Park Authority, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, and Rural Payments Agency

Subscriptions

  • Get emails for this topic
See latest changes to this content

Abstract (take) or impound (store) water

  • Check if you need a licence to abstract water
  • Check if you need a licence to impound water
  • Get advice before you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence
  • Apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence
  • Manage your water abstraction or impoundment licence online
  • Measure, record and report your water abstraction
  • Apply to renew a water abstraction licence
  • Change a water abstraction or impoundment licence
  • Managing water abstraction
  • Water abstraction: transfer an abstraction or impoundment licence
  • Water abstraction: application to apportion an abstraction licence

Discharge water

  • Septic tanks and sewage treatment plants: what you need to do
  • T20 waste exemption: treating waste at a water treatment works
  • T21 waste exemption: recover waste at a waste water treatment works
  • Public sewer connection dispute under section 101A

Drought and water availability

  • Form WR80: application for a drought permit
  • Groundwater: current status and flood risk
  • Water situation reports for England
  • Abstraction licensing strategies (CAMS process)
  • Drought: managing water supply
  • Drought management for England

Water quality

  • Check the quality of your drinking water
  • Check the quality of beach and bathing water in England
  • Bathing waters
  • Application to use herbicides in or near water

Hydropower

  • Harnessing hydroelectric power
  • Hydropower: notices of applications made

Registers, maps and data

  • Access the public register for environmental information
  • Abstracting or impounding water: notices of applications made
  • Hydropower: notices of applications made
  • Environmental impact assessment (EIA) statutory notices
  • Water discharge returns

Water planning

  • Water resources planning: managing supply and demand
  • Water resources planning guideline
  • River basin management plans: 2015

Is this page useful?

  • Maybe
Thank you for your feedback

Help us improve GOV.UK

Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.

Help us improve GOV.UK

To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Don’t worry we won’t send you spam or share your email address with anyone.

Topics

  • Benefits
  • Births, death, marriages and care
  • Business and self-employed
  • Childcare and parenting
  • Citizenship and living in the UK
  • Cost of living support
  • Crime, justice and the law
  • Disabled people
  • Driving and transport
  • Education and learning
  • Employing people
  • Environment and countryside
  • Housing and local services
  • Money and tax
  • Passports, travel and living abroad
  • Visas and immigration
  • Working, jobs and pensions

Government activity

  • Departments
  • News
  • Guidance and regulation
  • Research and statistics
  • Policy papers and consultations
  • Transparency
  • How government works
  • Get involved

Support links

  • Help
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility statement
  • Contact
  • Terms and conditions
  • Rhestr o Wasanaethau Cymraeg
  • Government Digital Service
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated
© Crown copyright