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In this Act, unless the context otherivise requires, (a) "Act" means the Assam Ground Water (Control and Regulation) Act, 20 t 2; (b) "artificial recharge to ground water" means the process by which ground water reservoir is augmented at a rate exceeding that under natural condition of replenishment; ( c) ~'drinking waler" means water for consumption or use by human population for drinking and for other domestic purposes which shall include consumption or use of water for eooking, .bathing, washing, cleansing and other day~to day activities. It shall also include water meant for conBUmption by livestock; (d) "ground water,, meaI)S the ·water that exists below the surface of the ground at any particular location; (e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (f) "rain water harvesting" is the technique for collection and storage of rainwater at surface or in sub-surface aquifer; (g) "State Government" means the State Government of Assam; (h) "State Authority" means the Assam State Ground Water Authority establisheq under section 3 of this Act; , THEASSAMGAZETIE,EXTRAORDINARY, MAY19, 2012 2007 Establishment of State Ground Water Authority and Zonal Ground Water Authorities. (i) "Sink'', with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions 1n relation to a well, includes digging, drilling or boring of new wells or deepening and modification (of radials and galleries) of the existing wells; (j) "User of ground water" means the person or persons or an institution including a company or an establishment: whether Government or non-govemmentat who or which extract or use or sell ground water for any purpose including domestic use made either on a personal or eommuhi ty basis; (k) "Well" means a structure sunk for the search or extraction of ground water by a person or persons except by the authorized officials of the State or Central Government for carrying out · scientific investigations, exploration, development, augmentation, conservation, protection or management of ground water and includes open well, dug wen, bore well, dug-cum-bore well, tube well, filter point, eoHector well, infiltrati<>n gallery, recharge wen, disposal welt or any of their combinations or variations: Provided that it will exclude. a well of any variant used by person or persons drawing ground water by manual devices like hand pump or rope or bucket. CHAPTER- II . . . .