Defra has announced plans to streamline regulation relating to agricultural pollution, as it published the Water White Paper, hailed as the ‘biggest overhaul to water in a generation’. The White Paper is primarily focused on the big water companies, setting  out ‘clear powers for the new regulator, delivering tougher oversight and stronger accountability for water companies’. There is also the promise of investment to strengthen water infrastructure, alongside a doubling of funding for local catchment partnerships, empowering local groups to stop pollution before it reaches our waterways There is a section on agricultural pollution, which states that around 40% of river and groundwater pollution is due to…