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.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
For water companies in England and Wales to use for developing their water resources management plan. Also relevant to those producing regional plans.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
Map of water management catchments and list of catchment coordinators.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
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.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).