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Posts about our work to improve the water environment

Creating a pioneering model of river stewardship

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Community, Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood, Greener business, Regulated industry, Water

After the floods in 2007 in Sheffield the Environment Agency undertook a comprehensive programme of works to clear the River Don of tree growth, vegetation and debris. Both eyewitness accounts and subsequent modelling demonstrated the capacity of the channel was …

Building a greener future

As I begin my tenure as Chair of the Environment Agency it is now, more than ever, that we need a bold new vision for the environment. Over the last 40 years EU legislation has helped shape and promote improvements …

New water quality standards are in place at bathing beaches – so what’s changed?

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Cleaner Seas, Community, tourism, Water

There are over 400 bathing waters in England, and from 2016 water quality will be classified as either Excellent, Good, Sufficient or Poor, based upon regular samples and testing by the Environment Agency to check how clean the water is. …