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We want your views on our proposed charging approach for water resources abstraction and impounding licensing.
Seeking your views on the new strategic policy statement for Ofwat.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Strategic policy statement setting out the government’s priorities for Ofwat’s regulation of the water sector in England.
Seeking views on our plans to move water abstraction and impounding licensing into the Environmental Permitting Regulations regime.
Ministerial direction to water and sewerage undertakers and water supply licences in England and Wales.
This abstraction licensing strategy sets out how surface and ground water resources are to be managed in the Wye catchment.
We propose to apply EPR charges and abstraction charges to the Isles of Scilly and amend EPR charges to include fusion activities in nuclear regulation.
How the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales coordinate the work on catchments that are close to or are part of the border between England and Wales.
This document summarises what has happened and what has been achieved since the 2015 river basin management plans were published.
This document provides an overview of the draft river basin management plans for the river basin districts in England.
Sets out how the Environment Agency plans to manage water in the Middle Severn Catchment.
This report is our formal advice to ministers on which areas in England and Wales are in serious water stress.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
A licensing strategy to manage water resources in the Staffordshire Trent Valley area.
Seeking views and evidence on various measures for reducing personal water use.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
We want your views on our approach to determining areas of water stress to inform whether water companies can introduce compulsory metering in those areas.
This report sets out the results of the Environment Agency's determination of areas of water stress that took place in 2021.
How government, water companies and the Environment Agency make sure there is enough water for future needs of both people and the environment.
Sets out how the Environment Agency manages water resources in the area.
Sets out how water resources are managed in the Nene catchment.
The Environment Agency's decision not to carry out strategic environmental assessment for the third cycle of river basin management plans.
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