Local enquiry as to sufficiency and purity of water supply in a village

Local enquiry as to sufficiency and purity of water supply in a village.-In any village which the Government or any officer appointed by the Government in this behalf may order, the Magistrate may cause a local enquiry to be made as prescribed by rules made under section 13 with a view to ascertaining any of the following matters:

1. (1) whether the water of any well or spring is unfit for drinking purposes from want of protection or from drainage, or from any other cause, and whether measures of protection can or can not be taken;
2. (2) whether the water of any well, spring or stream is dangerous to health and its impurity is due to the village, and whether measures of protection cannot be taken;
3. (3) whether it is necessary for the sanitation of the village that there should be provision for the protection of water courses, for periodical examination of water, for regulation of building of houses, for surface drainage and for defining and maintaining the cleanliness of the village.