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(1) [Every Municipality]2 in which a water–tax is imposed, shall be bound,- (a) throughout a prescribed area or prescribed areas- (i) to maintain a system of water-supply through pipes, and (ii) to lay on water at a prescribed pressure and during prescribed hours, and (iii) to supply in all the chief streets in which mains have been laid, water to stand-pipes or pumps situated at such intervals as are prescribed, and (b) subject to the rules as may be framed to allow the owner or occupier of any building or land assessed to a prescribed minimum water-tax to connect for the purpose of obtaining water for domestic purposes, the building or land with a main by means of a communication pipe of the prescribed size and description, and (c) to supply, within every twenty-four hour, to every owner or occupier entitled to a house connection under clause (b) whose land or building is 288 provided therewith such amount of water as is prescribed with reference to the water-tax payable by him and his estimated requirements for domestic purposes, into a storage cistern erected in or on the building or land, of a capacity not less than such amount and of a prescribed pattern and at an altitude not exceeding the maximum prescribed for the same . (2) The word “prescribed” in sub–section (1) means prescribed by rule under section 235. Supply of water by agreement