West Bengal Ground Water Resources (Management, Control and Regulation) Act, 2005.

This Act is enacted to manage, control and regulate indiscriminate extraction of ground water in West Bengal.
The State Government shall establish an authority at the State level to be known as the West Bengal State Level Ground Water Resources Development Authority. Powers and duties of State Level Authority include: (a) take into consideration every aspect to manage the ground water resources in West Bengal including issuing of certificate of registration or permit in accordance with the provision of the Act; (b) initiate a policy to conserve the ground water resources by way of recharging, replenishing, recycling or reusing, in a co-ordinated manner; (c) organise people's participation and involvement in planning and actual management of ground water resources; (d) keep under constant review area-specific ground water levels and publishing the revised data periodically for wide circulation for mass awareness and for devising and implementing plans and programmes of use such water; etc.
The Act further makes provisions, inter alia, for: establishment of district level authority and corporation level authority, sinking of wells for extracting or using ground water, offences and penalties.