This Order repeals and re-enacts with amendments the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The principal amendments - (a) modify the provisions relating to discharge consents; (b) enable the Department of the Environment to make more extensive provision, by regulations, to prevent pollution; (c) confer more extensive powers on the Department of the Environment to carry out anti-pollution works and enable the Department to issue notices requiring persons to carry out anti-pollution works; (d) confer