Local Order No.8 of 2002 regarding Sewage, Irrigation, and Water Drainage in the Emirate of Dubai.

This Order consisting of 48 articles divided in VI Chapters and 1 Annex aims at defining powers and duties of the Municipality Sewage and Irrigation Administration of the Emirate of Dubai. Main duties are (i) planning, designing and executing all public sewage networks and processing stations in the Emirate, in addition to exercising surveillance and full supervision in respect of the operation and maintenance of such networks and stations; (ii) give approval for connecting a private sewage network of a building with the public sewage network or affecting any alteration or change in the network lines or the sewage system; (iii) determine the size and number of the points for connecting of the building private sewage network to the public sewage network, and also the positions and number of connection with the rain water drainage network; (iv) give approval for establishing a liquid waste processing station; (v) establish conditions, restrictions and standard specifications needed to drain industrial liquid materials into the public sewage network; (vi) establish conditions and specifications that must be respected by private sewage network of any building; (vii) planning, designing and executing all rain water drainage networks, and determining the water drainage points thereto, in addition to exercising surveillance and full supervision in respect of the operation and maintenance of the said networks; and (viii) planning, designing and executing public irrigation water networks, in addition to exercising surveillance and supervision over the networks operation and maintenance.
Regarding the owners, it is established that he (i) should assume the obligation to carry on the necessary periodical maintenance works for the pumps; (ii) connect the installations relating to drainage of water emanating from air-conditioning equipment and balconies to the private sewage network of the building; (iii) is responsible for operating and maintaining a private sewage network of the building and treating blockages, overflowing or leakages thereon; (iv) provide a good system for rain water drainage out of the building and car park attached thereto; and (v) may not affect any change or alteration in the rains water network system or lines in the building or its supplements without firstly obtaining the necessary written approval from the Concerned Administration.
The Order establishes also that (i) sewage networks of restaurants, cafeterias, food stuff factories, fast food shops, hotels and similar places should be provided with traps for separating fats complying with the conditions and specifications approved by the Concerned Administration; (ii) oil factories and cars washing stations should be supplied with traps for separating oils from washing water prior to drainage into the public sewage network, septic tanks, suction holes or any other positions designated for such purposes approved by the Concerned Administration; (iii) the concerned Administration is entitled to carry on periodical inspections over such establishments for the purpose of ascertaining the safety operation and maintenance of the existing traps.
The VI Chapters are entitled as follows: Definition (I); The Public Sewage Network (II); Private Sewage Network (III); Rain Water Drainage Network (IV); Public Irrigation Water Network (V); and General Provisions (VI). The Annex deals with the fees fixed for sewage irrigation and water drainage services.