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Letter from the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, Philip Duffy regarding inspections of water company assets.
Establishment of an independent non-statutory inquiry into the November 2021 incident when at least 27 people lost their lives crossing the Channel.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
United Utilities Water Limited have been fined £800,000 after illegally abstracting 22 billion litres of water from boreholes in Lancashire following a prosecution by the Environment Agency.
Details of the lowland agricultural peat water for peat pilots.
Consumer Council for Water annual report and accounts for 2022 to 2023.
The government is seeking views on expanding community water fluoridation schemes in the north east with new arrangements or by varying existing arrangements.
This report looks at the impact that new regulations to increase efficiency in water use are likely to have on sewers and wastewater treatment works.
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.
Study of data from internet connected domestic combination boilers to improve our evidence base on hot water usage in domestic properties.
The majority of designated bathing waters across Devon and Cornwall have a good or excellent rating for water quality.
Analysis and recommendations to resolve the longstanding issues of cyclicality in the water sector.
Scientific review of river typologies; incorporating climate change for the Water Framework Directive (WFD).
Application form to apportion an abstraction licence.
Presents the ranking of different factors for sustainable systems based on priorities of 42 Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene actors
The UK recognises a right to water and a right to sanitation as elements of the right to an adequate standard of living in Article 11 of the…
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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