The core activities are:

. To ascertain the sufficiency and wholesome of water supplied within the municipal area.

. To provide, or to arrange to provide, a supply of wholesome water in pipes to every part of the Municipal area in which there are houses, for domestic purposes of the occupants thereof, and for taking the pipes affording that supply to such point or points as will enable the houses to be corrected therto at a reasonable cost, so that the Municipality shall not be required to do anything which is not practicable at a reasonable cost or to provide such supply is already available at such points, and

. To provide as far as possible, a supply of wholesome water otherwise than in pipes to every part of the municipal area in which there are houses, for domestic purposes of the occupants thereof, and to which it is not practicable to provide supply in pipes at a reasonable cost, and in which danger to health may arise from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply and a public supply is required and may be provided at a reasonable cost, and to secure that such supply is available within a reasonable distance of every house in that part.

. Planning, Designing and implementation of the works which are required to be carried out for implementation of scheme on a time frame within house expertise as well as by appointing consultants.

. Long range planning for augmentation of new water supply schemes considering the future water supply requirements of the City.