National Water Policy (NWP) , 2002, Union Ministry of Water
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The Union Ministry of Water Resources has undertaken a review and revision of the National Water Policy (NWP) , 2002. Some points regarding to that are mentioned below as the recommendations given in an editorial of The Hindu:
- There is a gross mismanagement of water in India as evidenced below:
- Intermittent and unreliable water supply in urban areas
- Rivers turned into sewers or poison
- Water related conflicts between uses, sectors, areas and states
- Irrigation system in disarray
- Depletion of aquifers in many parts of the country
- Inefficiency and waste in every kind of water use
- Environmental impacts of big water-resource projects
- Hence there is need for a radical reform of water policy
- Need to adopt a stringent restraint on the growth of demand for water
- On the supply side the primacy will have to shift from large, centralized, capital-intensive ‘water resource development’ (WRD) projects with big dams and reservoirs and canal systems, to small, decentralised, local, community-led, water-harvesting and watershed-development programmes, with the big projects being regarded as projects of the last resort.
- Multiple perspectives on water
- Rights perspective
- Social justice/equity perspective
- Women՚s perspective
- Community perspective
- State perspective
- Engineering perspective
- Citizen/water-user perspective
- Environmental perspective etc