Water Act, 2002 The Government of formulated the National Policy on water Resources management in 1999. This was on realizing that the arrangement then on water supply was inappropriate. The national Water Policy has four broad objectives viz: To preserve, conserve and protect available resources and allocate them in a sustainable, rational and economic way; To supply water of good quality and in sufficient quantities to the various water needs, while ensuring safe disposal of waste water and environmental protection; To establish an efficient and effective institutional framework to achieve a systematic development and management of the sector promoting and supporting participation of users; To develop a sound and sustainable financing mechanism for effective water supply and sanitation development. The National Policy on Water eventually gave birth to the Water Act 2002 whose main focus is: Provisions for involvement of the private sector in water services Setting up a Water Regulator and Water Boards to ensure that water will be adequately distributed to all parts of the country; Provision to allow communities to run water projects. Water Act 2002, is to provide for the management, conservation use and control of water resources and for the acquisition and regulation of rights to use water; provide for the regulation and management of water supply and sewerage services; to repeal the Water Act (Cap 372) and certain provisions of the Local Government Act; and for related purposes. In Kenya water is regarded as a national resource and therefore owned by the state for and on behalf of the people (Section 3). Thus the Minister in charge of water is empowered under the Act to control, plan and regulate the use of water. Further the Minister is vested with the duty to promote investigations, conservation and proper use of water. The Act has set up subsidiary bodies with power to operate and regulate functions assigned to them by the Act such bodies include National water conservation and pipeline corporation and water resources management authority. The Act further gives conditions
Water Act, 2002 The Government of formulated the National Policy on water Resources management in 1999. This was on realizing that the arrangement then on water supply was inappropriate. The national Water Policy has four broad objectives viz: To preserve, conserve and protect available resources and allocate them in a sustainable, rational and economic way; To supply water of good quality and in sufficient quantities to the various water needs, while ensuring safe disposal of waste water and environmental protection; To establish an efficient and effective institutional framework to achieve a systematic development and management of the sector promoting and supporting participation of users; To develop a sound and sustainable financing mechanism for effective water supply and sanitation development. The National Policy on Water eventually gave birth to the Water Act 2002 whose main focus is: Provisions for involvement of the private sector in water services Setting up a Water Regulator and Water Boards to ensure that water will be adequately distributed to all parts of the country; Provision to allow communities to run water projects. Water Act 2002, is to provide for the management, conservation use and control of water resources and for the acquisition and regulation of rights to use water; provide for the regulation and management of water supply and sewerage services; to repeal the Water Act (Cap 372) and certain provisions of the Local Government Act; and for related purposes. In Kenya water is regarded as a national resource and therefore owned by the state for and on behalf of the people (Section 3). Thus the Minister in charge of water is empowered under the Act to control, plan and regulate the use of water. Further the Minister is vested with the duty to promote investigations, conservation and proper use of water. The Act has set up subsidiary bodies with power to operate and regulate functions assigned to them by the Act such bodies include National water conservation and pipeline corporation and water resources management authority. The Act further gives conditions
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