Executive By Law of the Water Law No.33 of 2003 as amended issued by Cabinet Decree No.112 of 2011.

This Regulation aims at (i) implementing the provisions of Law in the fields of regulation, management, development, rationalization of water resources exploitation, and protection from depletion and pollution; (ii) increasing the efficiency of conveyance and distribution, good maintenance, and operation of the water structures; (iii) participation of beneficiaries in management during development, utilization, protection and maintenance phases (art.3). Article 4 provides for activating the 'beneficiary shall pay principle' and imposing progressive prices per cubic meter of water used for industrial, commercial, or touristic purposes and other non-basic services, and varying the prices of agricultural irrigation water according to the agricultural crop water consumption. Article 5 provides that Wadis are common property for all beneficiaries and so they are not owned privately and as such the characteristics of customs and traditions as accepted and recognized as well as water rights which were recognized through succession in each region of the Republic shall be approved and accepted to continue provided that beneficiaries shall not create changes in the courses of floods which result in preventing natural water from flowing in their normal courses or to cause negative environmental effects in such courses of the wadis. The State carries out activities or takes measures in such Wadi for the benefit of the water users within the public interests as such (i) establishment of main and secondary irrigation systems and to clean the wadi beds and courses; (ii) divert the water from its natural courses; (iii) establish water monitoring and control stations and manage them; (iv) conserve water and control water uses and its rationalization; (v) take measures to protect from spate and floods; (vi) recharge groundwater; and (vii) transfer part of the water to renew and create a life for pasture and grazing and natural parks whether temporarily or permanently. Article 6 provides for the conditions that any beneficiary and user of any ground or surface water resource, whether through succession or transfer, or acquisition must satisfy and fulfill. As for WUAs, the Regulation states that WUAs are all beneficiaries and users of water and regulate their efforts for the purpose of participation in the management of water resources and participate in managing, financing, maintaining, and operating projects and structures of water and irrigation. Article 14 provides that if the percentage of members at the general assembly of the water users' association reaches two-thirds of the total beneficiaries of the common water source, the decisions made by the general assembly shall be mandatory for all the beneficiaries of that source.