WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 25D Measures mentioned in a water supply emergency declaration

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 25D

25D Measures mentioned in a water supply emergency declaration

The measures a service provider may, in a water supply emergency declaration, be directed to carry out are the following—

(a) to make available, water from the service provider’s authority under this Act to take or interfere with water or non-Act water, to—

(i) other service providers; or

(ii) entities responsible for generating electricity; or

(iii) the coordinator-general;

(b) to operate infrastructure to allow water, including non-Act water, to be supplied to the entities mentioned in paragraph (a) ;

(c) to make non-Act water available to a customer or type of customer;

(d) to operate infrastructure to allow non-Act water to be supplied to a customer or type of customer;

(e) to restrict, in the way stated in the declaration, the following—

(i) the volume of water taken by or supplied to a customer or type of customer;

(ii) the hours when water may be used on premises for stated purposes;

(iii) the way water may be used on premises;

(f) to apply a restriction imposed under paragraph (e) to water, including non-Act water, taken from a rainwater tank connected to the service provider’s reticulated water supply.