Protect groundwater and prevent groundwater pollution

Publication Year

2024

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on understanding what groundwater is and how activities may affect the quality or quantity of groundwater.

Document History

Last updated: 1 August 2024 - Updated to clarify the definition of groundwater - Water stored in geological strata (for example, in rocks) below the water table is called groundwater. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/protect-groundwater-and-prevent-groundwater-pollution/protect-groundwater-and-prevent-groundwater-pollution and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 14 March 2017.

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