Water Supply Regulations, 2013 (G.N. No. 90 of 2013).

These Regulations, made under section 57 of the Water Supply and Sanitation Act, 2009, concern water supply administration and water supply-related matters such as price of water, terms and condition of supply, waterworks, etc. They shall apply to any area designated and declared to be a Water Supply and Sanitation Authority, clustered water authority and any person providing water supply and sanitation services. An area to be declared by the Minister a water authority or a clustered water authority shall as a minimum be a township, district headquarter, regional headquarter or national water scheme. The Minister may declare any established water authority or clustered water authority to be a commercial water authority basing on the criteria prescribed in the Second Schedule. The Minister may establish a National water scheme to be a water authority and constitute a board of Directors. There shall be various categories of water authorities. t shall be the obligation of a water authority or person to apply for a licence from the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA). There shall be different classes of licences. A Water Authority may in accordance with section 19 of the Act, arrange for the exercise and performance of all or any of its powers and functions under a licence by one or more agents to be known as service providers. No water authority or person other than a community-owned water supply organization shall operate without a license from EWURA. Any person other than a Water Authority or Community Organization shall only operate under class I license. A water authority may in accordance with Regulations relating to registration of community organization operating within its area of service, apply to the Registrar for cancellation of a certificate of registration of a community organization where the water authority has fully extended water supply services.