Groundwater

ACT 19 OF 2002
ANNEXURE VI
THE KERALA GROUND WATER (CONTROL AND REGULATION) ACT, 2002

AN ACT

To provide for the conservation of ground water and for the regulation and control of its extraction and use in the State of Kerala.

Premble- Whereas it is expedient to provide for the conservation of Ground Water and for the regulation and control of its extraction and use in the State of Kerala;

And Whereas in certain, areas of the State the tendency of indiscriminate extraction of Ground Water is continuing;

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1. In the last several years, the World Bank has produced two Technical Papers with some good information about the environmental impacts and legal and policy options for mitigating these impacts:

1.1. World Bank (March 1998) “Groundwater in Urban Development: Assessing Management Needs and Formulating Policy Strategies,” World Bank Technical Paper No. 390

1.2. World Bank (November 1999) “Groundwater: Legal and Policy Perspectives,” World Bank Technical Paper No. 390

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA
AT ERNAKULAM
W.P.(C) No. 34292 of 2003.
Dated this the 16th December, 2003.

Perumatty Grama Panchayat

Vs

State of Kerala .

REPORTED IN 2004 (1) KLT 731.

JUDGMENT

K. Balakrishnan Nair, J.