Question

Describe any three key features of India’s ‘National Water Policy’,

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Answer 1

Answer:

(i) Providing drinking water to all human beings and animals should be the first priority.

(ii) Measures should be taken to limit and regulate the exploitation of groundwater.

(iii) Both surface and groundwater should be regularly monitored for quality.

Answer 2

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Explanation:

In the year 2002, the revised National Water Policy was adopted by the national water resource council on 1st April 2002.

• The policy emphasised on artificial recharge of groundwater, water conservation in house and traditional conservation programme with rooftop conservation, desalinisation of salty water in the coastal region to convert it into freshwater using low-temperature technique and conventional methods of recharging groundwater.

• It scaled up the sector reform Pilot Project to the whole country in the form of the Swajal Dhara Programme was the paradigm shift from the supply.
• The programme was the paradigm shift from supply-driven to demand-driven, centralised to decentralised implementation and government’s role from service provider to facilitator.
• It was linked to Rajiv Gandhi National drinking water Mission programme and provide safe water to villages that did not have adequate sources of safe water.
• It also tried to improve the level of services for villages which were earlier partially covered.

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