Water pollution control strategies continue to be powerful tools being used to ensure safe and clean water. These strategies involve using legal interventions and other approaches to hold polluters accountable and deter others. Pursuant to this, this paper looks at the legislative water control strategies by analysing the relevant laws and considering the impact courts' decisions on water pollution control.

Virtually all the laws regulating water resources make it mandatory that water pollution laws must be strictly complied with and they also provide for adequate consequences for transgression of the laws. However, there are instances when these laws might be deliberately or inadvertently contravened. There are ample provisions in the laws to control and sanction the demeanor of the polluter and bring the polluter to account. This paper looks at the compliance mechanisms and the challenges thereof. It examines the court's activism in ensuring that perpetrators are made to comply and consequences that will follow for non-compliance.