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
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  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

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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