of December 29, 2010 No. 670
About drinking water and drinking water supply
This Law regulates legal and organizational basis of the relations in the area concerning drinking water and drinking water supply and establishes the state guarantees on providing the population with drinking water.
The basic concepts applied in this Law:
- drinking water - water on the quality in natural state or after processing (cleaning, disinfecting, addition of missing substances), meeting the established normative requirements, intended for drinking and domestic needs of the person, and also for production of food and medical products;
- standard rates of quality of drinking water (normative requirements) set established scientifically - research methods and the admissible indicators of chemical and microbiological composition and organoleptic properties of drinking water (taste, color, smell, temperature) guaranteeing its safety and harmlessness for health of the person regulated by health regulations;
- drinking water supply - the activities aimed at providing needs for drinking water of physical persons and legal entities;
- source of drinking water supply - natural waters (superficial and underground) which are used or can be used for drinking water supply after the corresponding processing or without it;
- centralized system of drinking water supply (water supply system public) - complex of devices and constructions for fence, preparation, storages and supply of drinking water to places of its consumption, open for general use by physical and (or) legal entities;
- not centralized system of drinking water supply of general use - the device and construction for fence and preparation (or without preparation) drinking water without its giving to places of consumption, open for general use by physical and (or) legal entities;
- autonomous systems of drinking water supply - devices and constructions for intake of drinking water and giving (or without giving) it to the place of consumption which are in individual use (the certain building, Dehkan (farmer) economy, the seasonal dacha or other separate object);
- system of providing with drinking water on the vehicle
- the equipment and installation placed on the vehicle for providing with drinking water passengers, crews and service personnel along the line the vehicle of passenger or other appointment;
- system of drinking water supply - all types of systems (centralized, not centralized, autonomous and systems of drinking water supply on transport) in the presence of general standard rates;
- reliability of system of drinking water supply - property of system to provide certain mode (uninterrupted, according to the schedule, hourly) supply of drinking water to consumers according to the established regulations of drinking water supply and normative quality requirements of drinking water;
- zone of sanitary protection of sources of drinking water supply and their systems - the territory and the water area in which the special modes of economic and other activity for the prevention of quality degradation of water and their protection are set;
- regulations of drinking water consumption - the amount of drinking water necessary for satisfaction of physiological and domestic needs of one person within a day in the specific settlement, separate object or the vehicle in case of normal functioning of systems of drinking water supply, in case of violation of their functioning and in case of emergency situations;
- the organizations of drinking water supply - the legal entities exercising control of centralized or not centralized systems of drinking water supply;
- consumers of drinking water - the physical persons and legal entities using drinking water for own needs.
The legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan on drinking water and drinking water supply is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan and consists of this Law and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Tajikistan, and also the international legal acts recognized by Tajikistan.
Tasks of this Law are:
- establishment of legal guarantees and requirements satisfaction of physical persons and legal entities drinking water;
- establishment of economical bases of drinking water supply;
- establishment of the state guarantees of stability of drinking water supply, and also the bases of responsibility for offenses in the field of drinking water supply.
The basic principles of drinking water supply are:
- the state guarantees of first-priority satisfaction with drinking water of physical persons and legal entities for the purpose of ensuring their vital needs and protection of health;
- state control and state regulation of questions of drinking water supply;
- safety and reliability of drinking water supply;
- accountability of the physical persons and legal entities responsible for drinking water supply, to the local executive bodies of the government exercising the state control in the field of use and protection of waters and also bodies for emergency situations and civil defense within their powers;
- safety, reliability and controllability of systems of drinking water supply taking into account their technological features and the choice of water source according to the single standards and regulations operating in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan;
- accounting in drinking water supply;
- paid nature of drinking water supply;
- the state support of development of systems of drinking water supply, production and providing necessary the equipment and materials for them, in particular chemicals for cleaning and disinfecting of water.
In the field of drinking water supply are within the competence of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan:
- implementation of state policy in the field of drinking water supply;
- adoption of state programs of development of drinking water supply in the Republic of Tajikistan;
- acceptance of regulatory legal acts concerning drinking water supply;
- determination of accounting treatment and reporting;
- realization of single price policy in the field of drinking water supply;
- determination of procedure for the state control and supervision;
- allocation of budgetary and other funds for recovery of systems of drinking water supply in the places which underwent to negative impacts as a result of emergency situations;
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The document ceased to be valid since July 19, 2019 according to article 27 of the Law of the Republic of Tajikistan of July 19, 2019 No. 1633