THE SINDH IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE AUTHORITY
3) The Managing Director and General Managers shall be appointed on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the SIDA.
4) The Board of Management may, by general or special order, delegate to the Managing Director or any of the member of the Board, or to any officer of the SIDA, any of its powers under this Ordinance, subject to such conditions or limitations as it may impose.
13. Water Allocation Committee
1) The SIDA shall at each Barrage establish and maintain a WAC.
2) The WAC shall consist of -
a. the Managing Director or any person nominated by him;
b. the senior engineer on the Barrage;
c. the Director of each AWB which draws water from the barrage, or any person appointed by him;
d. two elected farmers' representatives from each AWB, in such a way that from each AWB one farmer is a tail end farmer and the other is a small farmer;
e. one representative of the District with the largest area within the jurisdiction of each AWB, provided that a District can only be represented in one WAC.
3) The WAC may co-opt independent specialists as advisory members who shall not have a right of vote.
4) No person who is convicted of water theft, shall be elected, nominated or appointed to the WAC, unless a period of six months has lapsed from the date of his conviction.
5) If a member of the WAC, after his election, nomination or appointment, is convicted of water theft, he shall be removed from office.
6) The tasks of the WAC at barrage level are -
a) to establish an objectified systematic basis for water rights of the various canals, guided by apportionments on national level, with special attention to rights and distribution in times of drought.
b) to determine on basis of “normal water availability” (e.g. on basis of the Water Apportionment Accord, 1991) and on factual information on verifiable and documented data including but not limited to, cultivable command area, land use, non agricultural users and the availability of other water sources, the water share of the AWBs (or as the case may be other users from the water in barrages) on a weekly interval and these rights shall be registered by the SIDA or as the case may be the Regulatory Authority;
c) to inspect the register of these rights regularly (at least once each season) and ensure these rights shall be updated correctly, and in a timely and systematic way.
d) to plan each season the water allocation for the various canals, using the established water rights (or design discharges as the case may be), the forecasted water availability during the season and if needed special considerations for each AWB, for weekly intervals:
e) to adapt the planning of water distribution to real water availability in case this differs from the forecasted;
f) to ensure discharge measurements are carried out correctly (technically as well as with integrity), at the correct places and with appropriate intervals;
g) to compare the planned discharges to the actual discharges and explain differences;
h) to publish and make accessible to the AWBs and public via various media (water distribution planning and its adjustments. This should be done on a regular basis, however in no case on an interval no longer than one month;
