Editing Environment Agency (section)

===Scope===
The Environment Agency's remit covers almost the whole of England, about 13&nbsp;million&nbsp;hectares of land, {{convert|22000|mi|km}} of river and {{convert|3100|mi|km}} of coastline seawards to the three-mile limit which includes 2&nbsp;million&nbsp;hectares of coastal waters.<ref name="DefraSponsor">{{cite web|url=http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/ea/index.htm |title=The Environment Agency – Defra Sponsorship |publisher=Defra |access-date=15 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104013013/http://www.defra.gov.uk/Environment/ea/index.htm |archive-date=4 November 2008 }}</ref> In a sharing arrangement with the [[Scottish Environment Protection Agency]] (SEPA), it also exercises some of its functions over parts of the catchments of the [[River Tweed]] and the [[River Esk, Dumfries and Galloway|Border Esk]] which are, for the most part, in [[Scotland]]. Similarly, in an arrangement with [[Natural Resources Wales|NRW]], political and operational areas are not coterminus. NRW staff exercise responsibility for parts of the [[River Dee (Wales)|River Dee]] in England and EA staff exercise operational responsibility for those parts of the [[River Severn]] catchment in Wales.