In practice, for a relatively small country such as Georgia, 90% of water pollution is likely to be caused by a few' dozen of the major polluters, which w'ill 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 tw'O processes: effective licensing requires information about all actual and potential uses of water w'ithin 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.