(a) "Act" means the Bihar Ground Water (Regulation and Control of Development and Management) Act, 2006.
(b) "Artificial Recharge to Ground Water" means the process by which ground water reservoir is augmented at a rate exceeding that under natural condition of replenishment.
(c) "Authority" means Bihar State Ground Water Authority established in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(d) "Drinking Water" means water for consumption or use by human population for drinking and for other domestic purposes, which shall include consumption or use of water for cooking, bathing, washing, cleaning and other day to day activities. It shall also include water meant for consumption by the livestock.
(e) "Government" means the Government of the State of Bihar.
(f) "Ground Water" means the water which exists below the ground surface in the zone of saturation and can be extracted through wells or any other means or emerges as springs and base flows in streams and rivers.
(g) "Municipality" means an institution of self Government constituted under Article 243-Q of the Constitution of India.
(h) "Panchayat" means an institution of self Government constituted under Article 243-B of the Constitution of India.
(i) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
(j) "Rain Water Harvesting" means the technique of collection and storage of rain water at surface or in sub-surface aquifer.
(k) "Sink" with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions in relation to a well includes digging, drilling or boring of new well or in existing well, deepening and modification (of radials and galleries) of the existing wells.
(l) "User of Ground Water" means the person or persons or any institution including a company or an establishment, whether Government or non-governmental, who or which extract or use or sell ground water for any purpose including domestic use made either on a personal or community basis.
(m) "Well" means a structure sunk for the search or extraction of ground water by a person or persons except by the authorised officials of the State or Central Governments for carrying out scientific investigations, exploration, development, augmentation, conservation, protection or management of ground water and shall include open well, dug well, bore well, dug-cum-bore well, tubewell, filter point, collector well, infiltration gallery, recharge well, disposal well or any of their combinations or variations provided that it will exclude the wells from which ground water is drawn by manual devices, i.e., hand pump or rope and bucket used by a person or persons.
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Section 2 • The Bihar Ground Water (Regulation and Control of Development and Management) Act, 2006
2. Definitions.
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