2nd Amendment to the Water and Sewerage Act (Act No. 11 of 2025).

This Act amends the Water and Sewerage Act, No. 8 of 2020 (principal Act). It amends sections 8 by amending and deleting certain sub-sections thereof. Section 11 of the principal Act is also amended. Section 15 of the Act is deleted. Further, sections 25, 43, 54, 58 and 62 are also amended. The amendment mandates that every inhabited island in the Maldives must have an adequate water and sewerage system by 2027. The amendment also specifies standards to be met by laboratories established in the country to provide quality and safety testing services for water supplied to public use and the requirements for the provision of water analysis services in those laboratories. Further, the provision to submit a performance report on water and sewerage services at the end of each calendar year is added, along with service providers mandated to submit an annual report at the end of each calendar year consisting of a plan for the coming year and a performance report on the service provided in the previous year.