Policy paper

Drought management for England

How the Environment Agency works with government, water companies and others to manage water resources during a drought in England.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 2 July 2015
• Last updated: 2 March 2021 — See all updates

Documents

Drought response: our framework for England

Ref: LIT 10104

PDF, 750 KB, 33 pages

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Details

This drought framework sets out:

• how drought affects different parts of England in different ways
• which organisations are involved in managing drought and how they work together
• how the Environment Agency and others make decisions and decide on actions to take
• how the Environment Agency monitors and measures the impacts of drought
• how the Environment Agency reports on drought and communicates with others

See also:

Water resources planning: managing supply and demand

Drought: managing water supply

Area drought plans

The Environment Agency area drought plans are available on request from their National Customer Contact Centre:

Email: enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk

Telephone: 03708 506 506 (see call charges)

Published 2 July 2015
Last updated 2 March 2021 + show all updates

1. 2 March 2021

   Added a link to the recently published 'Drought: managing water supply' page.

2. 2 July 2015

   First published.