New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER MANAGEMENT (WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITIES) REGULATION 2004 - REG 16

16 Misuse and waste of water

(1) A person must not:

(a) cause or allow a plumbing fitting to be used, or

(b) cause or allow a plumbing fitting to be out of repair, or

(c) cause or allow anything else to be done,

so as to waste water supplied by a water supply authority.

(2) A person must not cause or allow water supplied by a water supply authority to be used for the purpose of diluting anything whose discharge into a sewerage system requires a discharge approval under Division 3 of Part 4.

(3) A person must not cause or allow anything to be done so as to contaminate water within a water supply authority’s water supply system.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.