25Distribution of water

25 Distribution of water

[Section 25 Amended by No. 46 of 1997, s. 9, Applied:11 Nov 1998] [Section 25 Amended by No. 36 of 2023, s. 8, Applied:11 Dec 2023] Subject to any contracts for domestic supplies, the undertakers shall at all times as seem to them reasonable meet all demands for water for irrigation or industrial use so far as their own supplies of water allow; and where their own supplies of water are insufficient they shall give diminished supplies all round in such proportions as seem to them just, taking into account –

(a) [Section 25 Amended by No. 46 of 1997, s. 9, Applied:11 Nov 1998] [Section 25 Amended by No. 36 of 2023, s. 8, Applied:11 Dec 2023] the differing losses that the landowners or the industrial users are likely to suffer from an insufficient supply; and

(ab) [Section 25 Amended by No. 36 of 2023, s. 8, Applied:11 Dec 2023] the capacity of individual landholders and individual industrial users to withstand or mitigate such losses; and

(b) [Section 25 Amended by No. 46 of 1997, s. 9, Applied:11 Nov 1998] [Section 25 Amended by No. 36 of 2023, s. 8, Applied:11 Dec 2023] the surety attaching to the irrigation right or specified in the contract entered into in relation to the supply under section 24B(1) .