Calcutta Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority Act, 1966 (Act No. XIII of 1966).

This Act, consisting of 93 sections divided into ten Chapters and completed by three Schedules, provides for the establishment of an Authority aimed to maintain, develop and regulate the water-supply, sewerage and drainage services and for the waste collection and disposal in the Calcutta Metropolitan District in order to promote the public health. It establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the above mentioned Authority, entitled to perform the following functions: water supply; sewerage; drainage; sewage treatment and disposal and collection and waste disposal of night-soil in areas yet to be sewered; matters connected with and incidental to the said functions; etc. The Authority shall provide for water supply throughout the District for domestic, commercial, industrial, recreational and other private or public purposes in accordance with such public health standards as may be prescribed.