Policy paper

Water stressed areas – 2021 classification

This report sets out the results of the Environment Agency's determination of areas of water stress that took place in 2021.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Water stressed areas – final classification 2021

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Details

The Secretary of State:

  • accepted the Environment Agency’s advice on the water company areas that should be determined to be in areas of serious water stress
  • determined those areas as areas of serious water stress on 1 July 2021

This followed our public consultation in February and March 2021.

Read the report to find out about the:

  • final determination
  • approach to our assessment

Updates to this page

Published 1 July 2021

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