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Water extraction plant alongside the flooding River Dove near Egginton, England, UK. Water extraction (also known as water withdrawal, water abstraction, and water intake) is the process of taking water from any source, either temporarily or permanently, for flood control or to obtain water for, for example, irrigation.
With the passing of the Water Act 1989, the ten water authorities in England and Wales were privatised by flotation on the stock market. They took the water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal activities into the privatised companies. The remaining duties remained with the newly created National Rivers Authority. [1] [2]
The agency manages the use and conservation of water through the issue of water abstraction licences for activities such as drinking water supply, artificial irrigation and hydro-electricity generation. The agency is in charge of inland rivers, estuaries and harbours in England.
The power was subsequently subsumed into The Water Resources Act (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009. [1] The only example in the UK was applied to the River Dee in 1999 [ 2 ] as The Water Protection Zone (River Dee Catchment) Designation Order 1999 which covers the whole of the River Dee catchment from the headwaters down to the ...
This enables continuous abstraction from the River Dee of 235,000 cubic metres per day by six statutory water undertakings and British Waterways Board. An additional benefit was a reduction in flooding events downstream of Bala as Bala Lake ( 52°53′31″N 3°37′05″W / 52.892°N 3.618°W / 52.892; -3.618 ( Llyn Tegid (Bala ...
A map of Ennerdale Water from 1948. Ennerdale Water is the most westerly lake in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England.It is a glacial lake, with a maximum depth of 150 feet (46 metres), and is 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 mile (800 to 1,600 m) wide and 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 kilometres) long.
Central Plains Water, or, more fully, the Central Plains Water Enhancement Scheme, is a large-scale proposal for water diversion, damming, reticulation and irrigation for the Central Plains of Canterbury, New Zealand. Construction started on the scheme in 2014.
However, since the passing of the Water Resources Act 1963, all abstraction had to be licensed, and investigation showed that the aquifer was already being over-abstracted. It was thought that it could supply around 68 Mld, but licences at the time allowed 139 Mld to be abstracted, although only 77 Mld actually were.