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Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.18, Panchayat Raj & Rural Development (RD.II) Department, dated 31.01.2015. [Act No.10 of 2002] 3 authority as the Government may by notification specify, provides water to the public and includes such well or any other drinking water source as may be notified by the Authority; (13) ‘Public water supply system’ means the structures relating to a public drinking water source, including conveying pipeline, storage reservoir, stand post, cistern, hand pump, power pump and all other materials connected thereto through which water is supplied for drinking purpose; (14) ‘Sink’ with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions in relation to a well includes any drilling, boring or digging of a new well or deepening carried out to an existing well; (15) ‘State’ means the State of 4Telangana; (16) ‘Surface water’ means water occurring on the land surface in ponds, lakes, streams and rivers; (17) ‘Technical Officer’ means a subject specialist so designated by the Authority to give advice on technical matters; (18) ‘To fell a tree’ includes burning, cutting, debarking, girdling and release of harmful chemicals and such other operations which cause damage to any part of the tree; (19) ‘Tree’ means any woody plant, whose branches spring from and are supported upon a trunk or body and whose trunk or body is not less than 5.5 cm. in diameter and is not less than one metre in height from the ground level