📢The new version of the Water Quality Explorer (previously Water Quality Archive) went live at the end of last week on the Defra Data Services Platform. There are numerous improvements. Take a look -

💻Throughout October, we will be intermittently disabling the Water Quality Archive API. Read why and more

📢Defra’s Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) programme has launched a new ‘Find Natural Capital Data’ search app on the Data Services Platform (DSP) see https://t.co/VuHvDOS59X Read more

📢You can now access over 30,000 permit documents and inspection reports directly from the Public Registers. Next month associated CAR forms will also be made available on selected permits. See

❗️We are making changes to the Water Quality Archive API. Please see our support pages for more info

Thursday 10th October 17:00 – 19:00. Planned maintenance on https://t.co/PWJbckzwok . We do not anticipate downtime but if the change is unsuccessful, we would need to revert. This could result in downtime in the live environment for up to an hour

Some of our RoFSW data will be unavailable this evening at 17:30 for approximately 15 mins whilst we carry out some maintenance work. Read more https://t.co/Xxu51FQiDl #DefraData

📢We are changing some features of the Data Services Platform including how we provide our Spatial API’s. For more information see https://t.co/zF66gAnllI #DefraData

ℹ️ Updates to the Waste Operations and Installations Public Registers Online will be paused between 27th of June and 14 July 2023 so we can do critical updates to the permitting systems. Public Registers Online -

ℹ️ Did you know you can get Environment Agency hydrometric data all in one place? Hydrology Data Explorer contains river, rainfall and groundwater data! https://t.co/T9uLMpYBfq

🌐 On Sunday 21 May we are carrying out essential maintenance work on the Defra Data Services Platform. Please be aware there is likely to be some disruption of up to two hours between 10am and 6pm

We would value your thoughts on how you use, and how we could improve the Water Quality Archive. Fill in our brief feedback form here to share your views ⬇️ https://t.co/gZqlmsZ0SM

In case the previous links didn't work... https://t.co/jMBIvZ3p8z https://t.co/UCuVr9sKSM

📢We have two exiting job opportunities working in Data & Information at the Environment Agency: Technical Specialist FoI ( https://t.co/3vv0AtTZu3) (permanent role) & Technical Specialist - Data Sharing ( https://t.co/3vv0AtTZu3) (22 month assignment working on the DSP)

There will be intermittent outages on the Data Services Platform on Tuesday 24 January after 5pm whilst we do some necessary patching. This will only affect our spatial services. Normal service should resume at 7pm. Apologies for any convenience.

Spatial data services on the Defra Data Services Platform will be unavailable from 6pm Friday 4 Nov to 6pm Sunday 6 Nov for essential maintenance. Linked data services won't be affected. https://t.co/PWJbckA4dS #DefraData

Linked data services on the DSP will be unaffected. Apologies for any inconvenience!

Spatial data services on the Defra Data Services Platform will be unavailable from 6pm on Friday 30 Sept to Saturday 1 Oct for essential maintenance. It should be back by Sunday, but there's a possibility of disruption then too. https://t.co/PWJbckzwok #DefraData

The Defra Data Services Platform ( https://t.co/PWJbckzwok) will be unavailable from 18.00-19.00 this evening for essential maintenance. #DefraData