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Current water policy issues

We do a lot of water policy work to help ensure that wildlife and wetland sites get the best protection possible. Here you can find out about key policies that we are involved with or that effect our work.

Last modified: 19 August 2010

The Water Framework Directive

This is arguably the most ambitious and important piece of environmental legislation to emerge from Europe for decades. More...

View of coastline showing rocky beach

Diffuse pollution from agriculture

Pollution is a significant issue for many of the UK’s water bodies and it can arise from different sources. More...

Drainage ditch in arable field

Sustainable flood management

We need to adapt to our changing climate and introduce a new, sustainable approach to flood management that works with nature, rather than against it. More...

Coastal flood defences breached near Bradwell, Suffolk