Guidance

River basin management plans, updated 2022: current condition and environmental objectives

How the current health of the water environment is assessed and how environmental objectives are used.

Applies to England

Documents

Groundwater chemical status assessment (classification) and trend assessment

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Rules for assessing surface water body ecological status and potential

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Details

This document is part of the river basin district’s river basin management plan, updated 2022.

You can access each river basin district’s river basin management plan from River basin management plans: updated 2022.

The 2022 river basin management plans are the current plans approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in December 2022.

Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2022
Last updated 22 December 2022 + show all updates
  1. Updated to reflect that the 2022 river basin management plans are the current plans approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in December 2022.

  2. First published.

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