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How the Environment Agency has determined the baseline length of rivers and estuaries polluted by harmful metals from abandoned metal mines in England.
Executive summary The UK has a long history of metal mining and thousands…
This is one of 20 reports, one for each polluted management catchment, on…
Examines the effects of nature-based solutions on freshwater environments by synthesising evidence from the scientific literature.
1. Chief Scientist’s Group report summary Nature-based solutions (NbS) are…
Identifies potential ways to optimise existing bathing water quality communication channels.
1. Research summary This small research project aimed to identify…
The problem of nitrates in the water environment, including sources and evidence. Current control measures, potential solutions and approaches.
This evidence summary supports the 25 Year Environment Plan and its outcome indicator framework.
Report on the quality of public water supplies and the largest private supplies that serve more than 5,000 consumers or exceed 1,000 cubic metres a day.
A report giving the indicative, catchment-scale source apportionment and estimated diffuse sector reductions required to meet protected area water quality targets.
These are the updated programme of measures for the Upper Costa Beck water body following a review carried out by the Environment Agency in 2024.
Applies recent developments in DNA data analysis to aide our understanding of river diatom communities.
Eutrophication issues and sources of phosphorus, with current and future problems and solutions.
The pressures on water flows, a review of actions to address the challenges, plus future challenges and actions.
Water temperature projections to 2080 for English chalk streams.
Current and future issues for drinking waters, with a review of current measures to address the challenges.
Annual reporting for 2021 on the environmental performance of the 9 water and sewerage companies, including the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA).
Impacts of farming on the environment and mechanisms for improvement, plus future challenges and approaches.
Annual reporting for 2020 on the environmental performance of the 9 water and sewerage companies, including the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA).
Report on the quality of all individual supplies of drinking water that exceed 1,000 cubic meters a day or serve more than 5,000 people in England.
This report explains the benefits of the Natural Flood Management Programme and celebrates its successes.
The sources of PBDEs and pathways into the environment, amounts in the water environment and restrictions of use.
The scale and impact of chemicals in the water environment. How the challenges are addressed and future challenges and actions.
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