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• Bathing Water

  The Environment Agency collects water quality data each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and other...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 5 November 2015

• Drinking Water Protected Areas (Surface Water)

  Drinking Water Protected Areas (Surface Water) are defined by the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England & Wales) Regulations 2017 (or WFD Regulations) as locations where raw water...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 23 November 2022

• Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations

  The Environment Agency collects and analyses water samples each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 May 2024

• WFD ARTIFICIAL WATER BODIES SURFACE WATER TRANSFER CHANNELS CYCLE 1

  WFD Artificial Water Bodies –Surface Water Transfers Cycle 1 is a polyline Shapefile dataset containing Water Framework Directive (WFD) attributes that have been collated as defined for the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 January 2004

• National Framework for Water Resources: Amount of water that potential water resource options could provide

  Amount of water (Ml/d) that potential water resource options could provide to solve the water needs problem at a national, regional water resource group and water company water resource zone scale...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 12 June 2025

• Administrative Boundaries - Water Management Areas

  Water management boundaries are delineated to river catchments.

  The Environment Agency uses these areas for their flood, water management and water quality operational purposes.

  The areas are...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 15 October 2019

• Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater)

  Drinking Water Groundwater Safeguard Zones (SgZs) are established around public water supplies where additional pollution control measures are needed. The Water Framework Directive requires that...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 July 2025

• Water Temperature Projections for England's Rivers

  Monthly water temperature projections for English rivers under the high-emissions "business as usual" RCP 8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathways) scenario.

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 March 2025

• National Framework for Water Resources: Water company WRMP24 final plan demand and preferred water resource options and the amount of water they provide

  A nationally collated list of final plan distribution input (demand) and new supply and transfer options and the amount of water (Ml/d) they provide, that water companies have put forward in their...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 12 June 2025

• WFD Lake Water Bodies Cycle 1

  WFD Lake Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined in the Water Framework Directive as '…a body of standing inland surface water'....

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 January 2011

• Water Vole Risk Zones - East Anglia

  This dataset identifies areas where the predicted distribution of water voles and has been categorised into zones relating to water vole occurrence and the level of impact development is likely to...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 21 March 2024

• Risk of Flooding from Surface Water

  Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (RoFSW) map is an assessment of where surface water flooding may occur when rainwater does not drain away through the normal drainage systems or soak into the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 October 2024

• Water Quality Exemptions Public Register Online

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA208. Certain activities are exempt from the need to have an environmental permit. In order to qualify for an exemption, the discharge or activity...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD Surface Water Management Catchments Cycle 2

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA433. WFD Management Catchments Cycle 2 is a polygon Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 October 2014

• WFD Surface Water Operational Catchments Cycle 2

  Operational catchments are a way of grouping WFD waterbodies together for the purposes of economic appraisal. Every waterbody has been assigned to an Operational catchment. They are not always...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 October 2014

• River water body catchments rural urban classification

  Rural-Urban classification of river water body catchments defined for Cycle 1 (2009-2015) of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Created to assign WFD project spend to a rural or urban sphere.

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 23 March 2018

• Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions

  These data provide details of all permit details as required under the Environmental Permit Regulation. Information is held for all permit holders and covers all substances that are controlled....

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 July 2025

• WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1

  WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polyline Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The river polylines were defined by using the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 3 April 2012

• WFD Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 1

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA088. WFD Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 3 April 2012

• WFD Artificial Water Bodies Canal Cycle 1

  WFD Artificial Water Bodies – Canals Cycle 1 is a polyline Shapefile dataset containing Water Framework Directive (WFD) attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency