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to improve the main rivers by the control of pollution

discharges as well as such remedial measures as desilting,

refuse clearance and improvements to the flow. The

draft Water Pollution Control (General) Regulations,

which were recently gazetted for public information and

comment, are intended to enable industrial pollution to

be contained in the short term and indeed, improved in

the longer term. Separate measures are also being

developed to deal with the problems of agricultural and

toxic industrial wastes. It is intended that these

legislative measures, together with the extension of

the sewerage networks, should lead to a reduction of the

overall pollution load in the area.