Manage water on land: guidance for land managers
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How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Water abstraction and irrigation
- Emergency restrictions on irrigators
- Discharge of waste water
- Vegetation management
- Herbicides
- Aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides
- Drainage and water levels
- Pollution from land management activities
- Waste water and field run-off
- Sheep dip
- Nutrient management
- Storage of silage, slurry and agricultural fuel oil (SSAFO)
- Penalties for non-compliance
- Further water management advice
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Manage water on land: guidance for land managers’ (updated 12 February 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026