The Tubod-Bary Water District (TBWD) was created under a Special Law, Presidential Decree 198 as amended by PD Nos. 768 and 1479 better known as the "Provincial Water Utilities Act of 1973." TBWD was awarded with the Certificate of Conditional Conformance No. 228 by the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) on November 8, 1982.
All Local Water districts were declared as Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCC) by the Supreme Court on September 13, 1991 in the case docketed as GR Nos. 95237-38.
The District has the following Objectives: