05 Oct 2021
From Defra The Government has unveiled proposals to improve water quality and regulate activities that affect water supplies which are intended to: modernise the system of licensing water abstraction – when water is taken from the environment for use in farming, food manufacturing and public water supplies – by giving businesses and other licence holders […]
25 Aug 2021
EA ‘The Environment Agency’s 12 week consultation on changes to the way organisations and individuals are charged to abstract water from the environment has been launched. These changes are to help better manage and protect our water resources. Based on recent projections, more than 3.4 billion additional litres per day will be needed in England […]
21 Oct 2020
A group of water companies have pledged to invest millions of pounds to protect the country’s chalk streams by reducing the amount of water they abstract from them for public drinking supply and cutting pollution. The pledge was made at an online Chalk Stream Summit organised by the Chalk Rivers Action Group (CRAG) and attended […]
29 Jul 2020
This blog by Alan Woods has also coincided with the announcement by Thames Water to reduce abstraction to help protect the River Wye near High Wycombe Call for Defra to develop a Chalk Streams Strategy Alan Wood writes ‘The Cam Valley Forum’s Let it Flow! report highlights the damage suffered by Cambridgeshire Chalk streams […]
12 Nov 2019
In the latest set of natural capital accounts for the UK, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has described current levels of water abstraction are unsustainable in some regions – as abstraction in England continues to rise. The amount of water being abstracted for public water supply declined by 12%, to 6,443 million cubic metres, from […]
17 Sep 2019
A recent article, published in The Guardian, says the proliferation of weirs, dams and culverts is now creating a threat to wildlife. The Swansea University-led project called Amber (Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers), aims to find ways to halt the fragmentation of European rivers and the dangerous isolation of their habitats. “Flowing rivers […]
15 Jan 2019
Defra Published 15 January 2019 Seeking views on proposals to modernise water regulation and allow better long-term planning of water resources and drainage. We want to know what you think about our proposals for improving long-term planning of water resources and drainage. We’re also asking about our proposals to modernise water regulation. These include: reforming […]
10 Jan 2019
Nathan Richardson ‘In terms of Water then a heads up that Defra are looking to consult on a range of topics in the next 3 to 4 months (see below) with a view to being in position to affect them through primary legislation when the opportunity arises (possibly through clauses in the Environment Bill (Part […]
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