Definition of Terms: Water Sector

Urban water services -

Means services provided in urban areas as shall be defined by the Regulatory Board from time to time;

Water Resource

Means any lake, pond, swamp, marsh, stream, watercourse, estuary, aquifer, artesian basin or other body of flowing or standing water.

Water Resource Management

Means the conservation, including soil and water conservation, protection, development and utilization of water resources;

Water Servces

Means any services of or incidental to the supply or storage of water and includes the provision of sewerage services;

Water Services Provider

Means a company, public benefits organization or other person providing water services under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Regulatory Board for the service areas defined by the licence

Bulk Water

Means water supplied to a water services provider by the water services provider making the supply;

Water Charges

in relation to the use of water from a water resource, includes fees, levies and premiums of any kind;

Cross-County water services provider -

Means a water services provider providing water services to more than one county;

Easement -

Means the right to occupy so much of the land of another as may be necessary for or incidental to the construction or maintenance of works authorised, or the exercise of rights conferred by a permit;

Ground Water

means the water of underground streams, channels, artesian basins, reservoirs, lakes and other bodies of water in the ground, and includes water in interstices below the water table;

In-stream habitat

includes the physical structure of a water resource and the associated vegetation in relation to the bed of the water course;

Limits of Supply

Means the limits within which the licensee is, for the time being, authorised to supply water;

Management of water resources

Means the development, augmentation, conservation or protection of a water resource;

Peri-urban water services

Means services provided in peri-urban areas as shall be defined by the Regulatory Board from time to time;

Pollution

means any direct or indirect alteration of the physical, thermal, chemical or biological properties of the water resource so as to make it less fit for any beneficial purpose for which it is or is reasonably be expected to be used;

Reasonable water use

Means the use of water without wastage;

Resource quality objectives

Means the level to be achieved and maintained in each aspect of resource quality for the water resource;

Riparian habitat

means the dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment adjacent to and associated with a watercourse;

Sanitation

Means the provision of on-site sanitation services including latrines, septic tanks and conservancies including the associated exhauster services;

Sector wide approach

means coordinated development in the sector to achieve national goals, effectiveness of funds and ownership of government institutions including sector wide planning and coordination, national monitoring and information and national implementation concepts;

Spring

Means water emerging from beneath the surface of the ground other than as a result of drilling or excavation operations;

Stream

Means the water contained in a watercourse, and includes a river;

Supply of water in bulk

means a supply of water to a licensee for distribution by or on behalf of the licensee taking the supply;