Right of reservation of certain water storage for drinking and human consumption

Right of reservation of certain water storage for drinking and human consumption :

1. (1) The Department may exercise the right of temporary reservation of certain water-storage with the catchment area, which is found suitable for the purpose of drinking and human consumption by the people in any habitation, particularly during the lean season or natural calamities.
2. (2) Without obtaining permission of the Department, no person, organisation, or any other department than the Public Health Engineering Department, shall use or utilise such reserved source of water for their individual use, so long the department's right or reservation is exercised.
3. (3) The department shall give wide publicity of such reserved sources of water.