Article​​​​​​​ 49. Procedure for maintaining water accounting and reporting in water use

Water users engaged in special water use shall maintain records and reports on water use in the prescribed manner.

Records of water resources shall be maintained at the water intake points of water users.

Water users' water intake points shall have a passport, be registered with the relevant water management organization, be equipped with water management devices (a gate or another device ensuring the opening and closing of the water flow) and water metering devices (including digital devices operating in "online" mode), and be attested in the prescribed manner.

The equipping of water users' water intake points with digital devices operating in "online" mode and the provision of software for data transmission shall be carried out in the manner prescribed by legislation.

Until water intake points are equipped with water metering devices, the accounting of water abstracted by water users for agricultural needs may be carried out by volumetric, calculation-based and other methods, taking into account the size of the actual irrigated areas, the number of irrigations, the irrigation regime of agricultural crops, the duration of water abstraction and other relevant factors.

The procedure for registering the passports of water users' water intake and water discharge points, as well as for attesting water metering devices, shall be determined:

by the Ministry of Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan — for water abstraction from artificial surface water bodies and, in agreement with the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan, for water abstraction from natural surface water bodies;

by the Ministry of Mining Industry and Geology of the Republic of Uzbekistan — for water abstraction from groundwater bodies.

For the purpose of maintaining records and reports on water use, an electronic daily water accounting journal in the prescribed form shall be maintained in a special information system at each water intake point by the water supply organization and the water user.

The electronic daily water accounting journal shall be registered in the special information system in the prescribed manner by the territorial divisions of the Inspection for the Safety of Water Management Facilities and Control over Water Use under the Ministry of Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan.