in practice for a relatively small country such as georgia of water pollution is likely to be caused by a few dozen of the major polluters which will facilitate checks on compliance at source though regular monitoring of water status will be needed and the current monitoring and data collection systems will need to be reinforced there is strong synergy between the two processes effective licensing requires information about all actual and potential uses of water within river basins there is also the option of earmarking some or all of the proceeds of abstraction and pollution charges to the budgets of the new river basin management councils