---
title: "Water Rights"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/environmental-and-energy-law-en/water-rights-781-en"
field: "Environmental & Energy Law"
description: "Water rights: the water-supply licensee’s duties, the quality standard and final-customer rights. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-23"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Water Rights

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/environmental-and-energy-law-en/water-rights-781-en

## Water Supply as a Service

The service side of water rights begins with the water-supply activity: a water-supply licensee carries out its activity on the basis of a water-supply activity license, in accordance with the law and the sub-statutory acts issued on its basis. This page describes the licensee’s rights and duties and the final customer’s rights — the whole chain from supplier to consumer.

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### What is a water-supply licensee obliged to do?

Operate the systems, supply standard-quality drinking water, maintain constant quality control, treat wastewater, elaborate emergency plans, disclose tariffs and pay the regulation fee.

### Does the customer have the right to choose a supplier?

Yes — the final customer has the right freely to choose and change the supplier in accordance with the law.

### How is the fee charged?

According to the supply rules and contractual conditions; the procedure of charging, settlement and collection is determined by the supply rules.

### Can another licensee’s water transit a network?

Yes — a licensee transmits drinking water through its network for another licensee, in exchange for the fee set by the commission.