The act to provide for the establishment of the Maharashtra water resources regulatory authority aims to regulate water resources within the state of Maharashtra, facilitate and ensure judicious, equitable and sustainable management, allocation and utilisation of water resources and fix the rates for use of water for agriculture, industrial, drinking and other purposes.
The authority shall exercise the following powers and perform the following functions, namely-
This document sketches out the procedure for regulation and enforcement of entitlements by the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority. As per the MWRRA Act (2005), the Authority is to determine the distribution of Entitlements for various Categories of Use and the equitable distribution of Entitlements of water within each Category of Use.
It is required to establish a system of enforcement, monitoring and measurement of the Entitlement for the use of water to ensure that the actual use of water both, in quantity and type of use, are in compliance with the Entitlements as issued by the Authority.
The technical manual for fixing, regulating and enforcing the Entitlements in Irrigation Projects (pilot basis) issued by MWRRA in 2007 requires the Authority to identify one officer in each project at an appropriate level to test check on delivery of Entitlements and sign in the gauge register in token of confirmation of delivery of due supplies.
The Regulator on the recommendation of WRD, will be so designated by the Authority through written orders to monitor on behalf of the Authority the enforcement of Entitlements in any project. He should not be directly connected with the project, he is to monitor but will be from another project in the vicinity. The Regulator will discharge the following powers & functions -