Links
A list of useful water related sites:
Government departments, delivery bodies and regulatory organisations
- British Waterways – navigation authority for canals and some rivers
- DEFRA – Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- DECC – Department for Energy and Climate Change
- Drinking Water Inspectorate – Responsible for drinking water quality
- Environment Agency – Responsible for main river flooding and water quality environmental regulation
- Forestry Commission
- Health Protection Agency
- Health & Safety Executive
- Natural England – Responsible for England’s natural environment, including its land, flora and fauna, freshwater and marine environments, geology and soils
- OFWAT – Water Services Regulation Authority responsible for economic regulation of UK privatised water services
Water companies
- www.albionwater.co.uk
- www.anglianwater.co.uk
- www.bwhwater.co.uk – (Bournemouth and West Hampshire)
- www.bristolwater.co.uk
- www.cambridge-water.co.uk
- www.choldertonwater.co.uk
- www.deevalleygroup.com
- www.dwrcymru.co.uk
- www.gov.im/water
- www.niwater.com – (Northern Ireland)
- www.nwl.co.uk (Northumbrian Water)
- www.eswater.co.uk – (Essex and Suffolk)
- www.portsmouthwater.co.uk
- www.scottishwater.co.uk
- www.stwater.co.uk
- www.southeastwater.co.uk
- www.south-staffs-water.co.uk
- www.southwestwater.co.uk
- www.southernwater.co.uk
- www.waterplc.com – (Sutton and East Surrey)
- www.thameswater.co.uk
- www.unitedutilities.com
- www.veoliawater.co.uk/east – (formerly Tendring Hundred Water)
- www.veoliawater.co.uk/southeast – (formerly Folkstone and Dover Water)
- www.veoliawater.co.uk/central – (formerly Three Valleys Water)
- www.wessexwater.co.uk
- www.yorkshirewater.com
Stroud and Gloucestershire Councils
- Gloucestershire County Council environment pages
- Gloucester City Council environment pages
- Stroud District Council environment pages
- Stroud Town Council
- Cainscross Parish Council
- Chalford Parish Council
- Painswick Parish Counci
- Randwick Parish Council
- Standish Parish Council
- Stonehouse Town Council
- Whiteshill and Ruscombe Parish Council
Water Action Groups and environmental organisations
Stroud and Gloucestershire
- BARFF (Bridgend Residents Against River Frome Flooding)
- Gloucestershire Rural Community Council
- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- Painswick Stream Action Group
- Ruscombe Brook Action Group
- Ruscombe Green Blog
- Ryeford Flooding Group
- Severn Wye Energy Agency
- Slad Brook Action Group
- Stroud Valleys Project
- Transition Town Stroud
- Vision21
Further afield
- Anglers Conservation Association
- Bio-dynamics UK
- Bourne Stream Partnership
- Clean Water Action
- Kempseyflag
- Nine Mile Run Watershed Association
- The Mersey Basin Campaign
- Rivers Unlimited
- River Network
- River and Lake Swimming Association
- Surfers Against Sewage
- Transition Towns
- West Wales Eco-Centre
- WWT (Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust)
Water experts
Small-scale hydropower
Effective Micro-Organisms
Natural Water Engineering Consultants
- Oceans-ESU
- haycock-associates
- JPR Environmental
- Robert Bray Associates
- Katherine Colby
- Simon Richards Associates
- WWT Consulting