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Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
Government acts decisively to force water companies to double the compensation paid to customers and businesses for service failures.
This section describes the mechanisms protecting the quality or quantity of water used for drinking water supplies.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
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.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
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