By the decree of the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated March 30, 2023, No. 2074, the State Water Resources Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan was established on the basis of the state agency for Water Resources of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan in order to improve management in the fields of Water Resources, Water Management and, Together with the assets of” azersu " Open Joint Stock Company and Azerbaijan amelioration and Water Management Open Joint Stock Company were transferred to the subordination of the agency.
By the decree of the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated November 2023, 17, No. 2356” on a number of measures to ensure the activities of the Azerbaijan State Water Resources Agency", the apparatus and regional units of the state supervision service for the use and protection of Waters were established and included in the structure of the Azerbaijan State Water Resources Agency.
In accordance with paragraph 2024 of the regulation of the State Service for supervision over the use and protection of water under the State Water Resources Agency of Azerbaijan, approved by the decree of the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated July 29, 163, rules for the use of water bodies and their protection, water use limits, normative legal acts providing sanitary-hygienic, ecological, hydrogeological, hydrological, technological requirements, it is a body that carries out state control over the regime of use of the territory of water protection zones and compliance with other requirements of the water legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan, monitoring of water and water management facilities.
