an area where the population and/or economic activities are sufficiently concentrated for urban waste water to be collected and conducted to an urban waste water treatment plant or to a final discharge point
banks, walls or embankments adjoining or confining, or constructed for the purposes of or in connection with, any channel or sea front, and includes all land and water between the bank and low-watermark
a body of groundwater or a body of surface water
Any part of a service pipe which a water undertaker could be, or have been, required to lay under section 46 of the Act. Consists of a pipe laid from an existing or newly laid water main to the boundary of a property, including a meter housing and stop valve.
to protect the interests of consumers, wherever appropriate by promoting effective competition
The drinking, washing, cooking, central heating and sanitary purposes for which water supplied to those premises may be used, including professional activities conducted within the house and outside uses connected to home occupation accessible via indoor tap without hosepipe, excluding baths exceeding 230-litre capacity and commercial laundry operations.
waste water from residential settlements and services which originates predominantly from the human metabolism and from household activities
A drain used for the drainage of one building or of any buildings or yards appurtenant to buildings within the same curtilage.
defence against water (including seawater), irrigation (excluding spray irrigation), warping, and the carrying on, for any purpose, of any other practice which involves management of the level of water in a watercourse
the enrichment of water by nutrients, especially compounds of nitrogen and/or phosphorus, causing an accelerated growth of algae
the drainage of land and the provision of flood warning systems
any waste water which is discharged from premises used for carrying on any trade or industry, other than domestic waste water and run-off rain water
That part of a drain which runs from the curtilage of a building (or buildings or yards within the same curtilage) to the sewer with which the drain communicates or is to communicate.
a watercourse shown as such on the main river map for England or the main river map for Wales
a sewer for the time being vested in a sewerage undertaker in its capacity as such
a water undertaker or sewerage undertaker
So much of a pipe which is, or is to be, connected with a water main for supplying water from that main to any premises, subject to water pressure from the main or which would be except for a closed valve.
any bivalve or gastropod mollusc
The irrigation of land or plants (including seeds) by means of water or other liquid emerging in whatever form from apparatus designed or adapted to eject liquid into the air in the form of jets or spray.
Any liquid, either with or without particles of matter in suspension in the liquid, which is wholly or partly produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at a trade premises. References to a trade or industry include agriculture, horticulture, fish farming and scientific research or experiment.
any pipe, not being a pipe for the time being vested in a person other than the undertaker, which is used or to be used by a water undertaker or water supply licensee for the purpose of making a general supply of water available to customers or potential customers of the undertaker or licensee, as distinct from for the purpose of providing a supply to particular customers
a person who is, or is deemed to be, the owner of a water main
Excludes from definition: sewers vested in sewerage undertakers, local authorities, or development corporations; and adits/passages connected to wells or boreholes used for water collection.
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