In the discharge of its obligations for providing urban environmental infrastructure and services in relation to water supply, drainage and sewerage, solid waste management, communication systems and agencies, commercial infrastructure, the municipality may, wherever considered appropriate in the public interest, -
(a) discharge any of its obligations on its own, or
(b) enter into any private sector participation agreement.
Chapter - 24 Water - Supply General
195. Definitions - In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,
(1) "communication pipe" means –
(a) Where the premises supplied with water abut on the part of the street in which the main is laid, and the service pipe enters those premises otherwise than through the outer wall of a building, abutting on the street and has a stopcock placed in those premises and as near to the boundary of that street as is reasonably practicable, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and such stopcock, and
(b) in any other case, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and the boundary of the street in which the main is laid, and includes the ferrule at the junction of the service pipe with the main, and also includes, -
(i) where the communication pipe ends at a stopcock, such stopcock, and
(ii) any stopcock fitted on the communication pipe between the end thereof and the main;
(2) "main" means a pipe laid by the municipality or any authority of the State Government for the purpose of giving a general supply of water as distinct from a supply to individual consumers, and includes any apparatus used in connection with such pipe;
(3) "service-pipe" means so much of any pipe for supplying water from a main to any premises as is subject to water-pressure from that main, or would be so subject but for the closing of any tap;
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(4) "supply-pipe" means any service pipe other than communication pipe;
(5) "trunk-main" means a main constructed for the purpose of conveying water from a source of supply to a filter or reservoir or from one filter or reservoir to another filter or reservoir, or for the purpose of conveying water in bulk from one part of the limits of supply to another part of such limits, or for the purpose of giving, or taking, a supply of water in bulk;
(6) "water-fittings" includes pipes (other than mains), taps, cocks, valves, ferrules, meters, cisterns, baths and other similar apparatus used in connection with the supply and use of water.
Functions in Relation to Water-Supply