Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Integrated Water Resources Management Board Ordinance, 2002.

This Ordinance is enacted to provide for establishment of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Integrated Water Resources Management Board.
The functions of the Board include: to allocate the resources for various consumptive uses, to specify mode of use of resources for various non-consumptive uses and to specify agencies empowered to issue licences for use of water, within the allocations made; to develop policies, rules and procedures so that water conservation is most efficient, wastages are minimized and demand is effectively managed and that this applies to all uses of water, including non-consumptive, and for all stages of the use cycle; to develop policies and procedures, in accordance with the environmental protection standards, so that the water resources in all its forms and locations is protected from pollution and contamination of all such types that renders water unfit for any of its intended uses; to initiate steps towards a governance structure in which water rights are effectively enforceable, and disputes resolution mechanism is effective, time responsive and accessible to all complainants; to specify the quality of water for various uses and of the effluents and waste water resulting from any uses of water before allowing it to flow into public drainage system and to specify mode of its final disposal; etc.