Environment Agency
Water abstraction licensing and returns
Register of abstraction licences in England with licensed and actual abstracted volumes by purpose, source type and catchment, plus the water resources availability assessment for each catchment.
Rights
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesContains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- Environment Agency
- Website
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/water-abstraction-licensing-strategies-cams-process
- Geographic coverage
- England — catchment and licence level
- Temporal coverage
- 2000 onwards
- Update frequency
- annual
- Formats
- csv, xlsx
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- withdrawal, groundwater, river flow