Help for Water Rights Trading Data (England)

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Environment Agency
Last updated:
27 June 2025
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Summary

This information has been provided to help people who want to trade access to water either by being a donor or receiving. Trades require prior approval by the Environment Agency to protect the environment and the rights of other lawful water users. Other factors that affect viability of a trade include how the sites are connected by natural water systems such as rivers or groundwater. In providing this information, the Environment Agency does not guarantee that a trade will be approved. Our assessment makes no suggestion as to whether or not a licence holder is willing to agree to a trade. Any assessment of the quantity of water abstracted under licences does not include records of water abstracted since 31 December 2024. Information on certain licences has been excluded to protect national security and those that are not required to submit returns to the Environment Agency, including those that abstract less than 100 m3/d. Unless agreed in writing with the Environment Agency you must comply with the conditions of your abstraction licence. Care should be taken when interpreting those cases where a licence authorises abstraction for multiple purposes and/or from multiple points. The maximum quantities concern the licence in its entirety. Please note: licences which are part of the Restoring Sustainable Abstraction initiative are included in the map for reference purposes. However, they will not be suitable for actual trading activities. Licence information is up to date as of 1st January 2025. Further information on water rights trading can be found at Trade water abstraction rights - GOV.UK (http://www.gov.uk). Please contact water_abstractiondigital@environment-agency.gov.uk with any queries.

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2025-06-26
Access contraints
Further conditions regarding your use of the data: We have restricted use of the information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect National Security and Personal Data. Some abstraction licences authorise water to be taken from an area or between two points. The location of these abstractions are shown on the map as a single representative point. You may supply reports including a limited specified geographical area not exceeding 100 square kilometres and limited to internal use with no time restriction on use. This condition does not apply if use is limited to a use that authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.
Harvest GUID
8a682192-4a1b-4e40-84d4-5671bfa5671c
Extent
Latitude: 55.816° to °
Longitude: -6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2025-01-16 (creation)
2025-02-07 (publication)
2025-06-19 (revision)
Frequency of update
biannually
Responsible party
Environment Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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Open Government Licence, Further conditions regarding your use of the data: \nWe have restricted use of the information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect National Security and Personal Data. \nSome abstraction licences authorise water to be taken from an area or between two points. The location of these abstractions are shown on the map as a single representative point. \nYou may supply reports including a limited specified geographical area not exceeding 100 square kilometres and limited to internal use with no time restriction on use. \nThis condition does not apply if use is limited to a use that authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.