The Water Board may establish on any piece of land, hydro-meteorological stations, or erect gauging weirs or plates or any other devices, for measuring the volume of water available in a particular stream or river, and obtain and record observations made at such measuring stations. The Water Board may also install measuring devices, for the purpose of determining the volume of water abstracted from a stream or a river by a person or institution in accordance with regulation 3. No person or insti