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Seeking views on changes to the guaranteed minimum standards of service all customers are entitled to in the water and sewerage sector.
We want your views on updates to the guideline that water companies in England must follow when they prepare and publish their drought plans by 2027.
Defra is seeking views on draft information and guidance on storm overflows. This aims to support water companies and regulators in carrying out their responsibilities to reduce the use of storm overflows.
The Environment Agency’s approach to managing new and existing abstraction and impoundment within the Tamar catchment
Seeking views on updating toilet specifications to stop cistern water from re-entering drinking water in properties and to understand the causes of leaking toilet valves.
Plan for managing navigation on the Rivers Wye and Lugg.
This strategy sets out our purpose, principles and priorities for how we will enable safe and sustainable sludge use on land.
Sets out how the Environment Agency plans to manage water in the middle River Severn catchment in Worcestershire.
A licensing strategy to manage water resources sustainably.
We want your comments on the proposed redesign of the WINEP and the roadmap which sets out our ambition and plan for long-term change.
Strategic policy statement setting out the government’s priorities for Ofwat’s regulation of the water sector in England.
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.
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
This report sets out the results of the Environment Agency's determination of areas of water stress that took place in 2021.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
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.
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