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When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
Formerly part of M18, how to prepare and interpret analytical quality control (AQC) charts to verify the performance of your monitoring method.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
The Independent Water Commission will publish an interim report on 3 June 2025.
The hydrological information the Environment Agency may need when you apply for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat diluted pesticide washings in lined biobeds and biofilters.
A joint statement between DLUHC, Defra, the Environment Agency and Greater Cambridge councils (Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire districts) on measures to address water scarcity issues in the area.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
A guide to making a representation about applications for licences to abstract (take) or impound (store) water.
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