LawgistThe New Delhi Municipal Council Act
168Water pipes, etc., not to be placed where water will be polluted
(1) No water pipes shall be laid in a drain or on the surface of an open channel or house gully or within six meters of a cesspool or in any position where the pipe is likely to be injured or the water therein polluted; and no well or tank and except with the consent of the Chairperson, no cistern shall be constructed within six meters of a latrine, or cesspool.
(2) No latrine, or cesspool shall be constructed or made within six meters of any well, tank, water pipe or cistern or in any position where the pipe, well, tank or cistern is likely to be injured or the water therein polluted.
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Water supply
- 147 Functions in relation to water supplies
- 148 Water supplied for domestic purposes not to be used for non-domestic purposes
- 149 Supply of water for domestic purposes not to include any supply for certain specified purposes
- 150 Power to supply water for non-domestic purposes
- 151 Use of water for extinguishing fire
- 152 Power to require water supply to be taken
- 153 New premises not to be occupied without arrangement for water supply
- 154 Public gratuitous water supply
- 155 Power to lay mains
- 156 Power to lay service pipes, etc
- 157 Provision of fire hydrants
- 158 Supply of water
- 159 Laying of supply pipes, etc
- 160 Power to require separate service pipes
- 161 Stopcocks
- 162 Power of Chairperson to provide meters
- 163 Presumption as to correctness of meters
- 164 Prohibition of waste or misuse of water
- 165 Power to enter premises to detect waste or misuse of water
- 166 Power to test water fittings
- 167 Power to close or restrict use of water from polluted source of supply
- 168 Water pipes, etc., not to be placed where water will be polluted
- 169 Power to cut off private water supply or to turn off water
- 170 Joint and several liability of owners and occupiers for offence in relation to water supply
