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The Environment Agency's approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the Aire and Calder catchment.
Seeking views on changes to the guaranteed minimum standards of service all customers are entitled to in the water and sewerage sector.
Terms of reference for the independent commission on the water sector regulatory system.
The Environment Agency’s approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the Tamar catchment
We want your comments on our proposed updated programme of measures for the Upper Costa Beck.
We want your comments on our proposed charges for water discharges (including groundwater activities).
We want your comments on our charge proposals for the licences that benefit from the operation of the Kielder Reservoir and transfer scheme.
Seeking views on the proposal to designate 27 sites in England as bathing waters.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Sets out the effect The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 have on the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016.
These documents provide information on how the water environment is managed in the English part of the Solway Tweed River Basin District.
Information on the mechanisms (policy, legal or financial tools) that underpin the draft summary programme of measures which translate measures into outcomes for the water environment.
Seeking views on the introduction of mandatory water efficiency labelling on water-using products.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The storm overflows discharge reduction plan sets stringent new targets to protect people and the environment. This will require water companies to deliver the largest infrastructure programme in water company history.
The UK government is consulting on the expansion of the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan to cover coastal and estuarine waters.
Policies for developing nationally-significant infrastructure projects for water resources in England.
Seeking views on the government’s proposals to enhance the monitoring of storm overflows and final effluent discharges into watercourses.
Plan for managing navigation on the Rivers Wye and Lugg.
This strategy sets out our purpose, principles and priorities for how we will enable safe and sustainable sludge use on land.
River stretches and bodies of water in England identified as sensitive areas under the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994. 
This abstraction licensing strategy (ALS) sets out how the Environment Agency manages water resources in the Warwickshire Avon catchment area.
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