Draft National Water Framework Bill, 2016
An Act to provide an overarching national legal framework with principles for protection, conservation, regulation and management of water as a vital and stressed natural resource, under which legislation and executive action on water at all levels of governance, as also water-use and water-related actions by persons and their associations, public and private institutions and bodies corporate of all kinds, can take place, and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.