13. For the purposes of this Act, all investigations and surveys and all undertakings shall, subject to the control of the Minister, be under the direction of a duly qualified officer to be designated the Director of Water-Power.

Another temporary measure to boost silver eel escapement is to transfer them, with human assistance, over obstacles such as dykes, hydro power stations and water pumps.

39. Calls for strict implementation of existing waste water treatment standards and compulsory water management plans by operators, in cooperation with the drinking water companies and the competent authorities; stresses, however, that existing treatment plants are ill-equipped to treat hydraulic fracturing waste water and may be discharging pollutants into rivers and streams; considers, to this end, that a full assessment of all the relevant water treatment plants in the Member States concerned should be carried on by the competent authorities;

16. Suggests that the Action Plan and the EU budget include support for a sound South African energy security strategy taking into account climate change and its social and environmental impact on the poor in South Africa and the region, focusing inter alia on the development of renewable sources of energy, in particular small hydropower plants, wind energy and biomass;

16. Suggests that the Action Plan and the EU budget include support for a sound South African energy security strategy taking into account climate change and its social and environmental impact on the poor in South Africa and the region, focusing inter alia on the development of renewable sources of energy, in particular small hydropower plants, wind energy and biomass;

The price of bottled groundwater is at least one thousand times more expensive than the water that comes from the waterworks of European cities.