The Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act 1974

The Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act is legislated in the year

A. 1972

B. 1974 è

C. 1984

D. 1986

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The main feature of the Water Act is the control of pollution through a permit or “consent administration” procedure.

Discharge of effluents into water bodies was only allowed by obtaining the consent of the State Board, within restrictions it poses.

Act covers the following aspects of regulating water resources in the country:

1. To prevent and control water pollution.

2. To maintain “wholesomeness” of water, i.e. to maintain the qualities of water so that its consumption and use by living organisms is not hampered.

3. To establish State Boards for prevention and control of pollution, which gets subsumed by the Air Act, passed in 1981.

4. To empower the Boards for prevention and control of pollution.

5. To provide penalties for breaking the rules of the provisions under this Act.

6. To establish state water testing laboratories and develop its protocols.

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Provisions for Central, State and Joint Boards have been made under

(a) The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 è

(b) The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

(c) The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986

(d) All of the above

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