New Debate on National Water Policy

A gathering crisis : The Hindu  

 A new regulatory regime for groundwater, that provides for equitable use, is urgently needed

The water crisis India faces is of such a magnitude that urgent measures are necessary to address it. Yet, while the crisis is often discussed, law and policy measures to address it remain insufficient. This is partly due to the fact that the primary source of domestic water and irrigation is groundwater but the media and policymakers still and often focus on surface water. This needs to change as water tables have been falling rapidly in many parts of the country, indicating that use generally exceeds replenishment.

LINK: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/a-gathering-crisis/article19447809.ece

OTHER PLATFORMS :  

Mihir shah committee report   :

(!) http://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/mihir-shah-committee-report-how-solve-water-crisis

(2) Interview ‘Time for a National Water Commission’
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/%E2%80%98Time-for-a-National-Water-Commission%E2%80%99/article14578590.ece

(3) Submission to Mihir Shah Committee For Restructuring of CWC & CGWB
https://sandrp.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/submission-to-mihir-shah-committee-for-restructuring-of-cwc-cgwb/

(5) Insights into Issues: Mihir Shah Committee Analysis

  Insights into Issues: Mihir Shah Committee Analysis  A high-powered committee led by Mihir Shah submitted its report recently to PMO. The report was titled “A 21st Century Institutional Architecture for India’s Water Reforms: Restructuring the CWC and CGWB”. About CWC & CGWB:The CWC was established in 1945, is in charge of surface water and creating storage structures such as dams and...

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(6) PRS:

http://www.prsindia.org/parliamenttrack/report-summaries/restructuring-the-central-water-commission-and-the-central-ground-water-board-4411/

Government of India Water Policy:

GOVERNMENT

• National Water Policy 1987  :  English  :  Hindi

• NationalWaterPolicy 2012   (pdf 84.6 kb)
• Constitution of Committee for suggesting a road map for implementation of National Water Policy, 2012. (pdf 95.5 kb)
• NationalWaterPolicy 2002 (pdf 59.4 kb)

• Review of National Water Policy

• Summary Record of Proceedings of National Water Resources Council meeting held on 28th December, 2012 (pdf 438 kb)

• Agenda Note of the National Water Resources Council meeting held on 28th December, 2012:  English    (pdf 94.1 kb) Hindi (pdf 201 kb)

• Summary Record Of Discussions In The Consultation Meeting With Representatives Of  Panchayati Raj Institutions On Review Of NationalWaterPolicy Held On 2nd November, 2011 At National Water Academy, Pune (pdf 168 kb)

• Summary Record Of Discussions In The Consultation Meeting With Representatives Of Non Governmental Organizations On Review Of NationalWaterPolicy Held On 11-12 January, 2011 In New Delhi (pdf 63.2 kb)

• Summary Record Of Discussions In The Consultation Meeting With Representatives Of Panchayati Raj Institutions On Review Of NationalWaterPolicy Held On 14th July, 2011 At Jaipur (pdf 38.5 kb)

• Summary Record Of Discussions In The Consultation Meeting With Representatives Of Panchayati Raj Institutions On Review Of NationalWaterPolicy Held On 16th June, 2011 At Walamtari, Hyderabad (pdf 40.3 kb)

• Summary Record Of Discussion In The Consultation Meeting With Representatives Of Panchayati Raj Institutions For Review Of NationalWaterPolicy Held On 30th June, 2011 At North Eastern Hill University, Shillong (pdf 38.6 kb)

• Summary Record of Discussion during Consultation with Corporate Sector for Review of NationalWaterPolicy held on 21.03.2011 (pdf 190 kb)

• Summary Record of Brainstorming Session with Academia, Experts and Professionals for Review of NationalWaterPolicy held on 26.10.2010  (pdf 286 kb)

• Summary Record of discussion at the consultation meeting held on 28.7.2010 (pdf 654 kb)

• Background Note for consultation meeting on review of NationalWaterPolicy held on 28.7.2010 (pdf 228 kb)

Magazine
ECONOMIC AND POLITICS

Vol. 51, Issue No. 52, 24 Dec, 2016

• Water Governance
• All Is Not Lost, But Water Sector Reforms Must Go Ahead-P S Vijayshankar
• Sustaining the Liquid Mosaic - Longer Steps Needed-Nilanjan Ghosh, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
• New Structures of Governance Needed-Vinod K Gaur
• From Policy to Practice - Principles of Water Governance- Rochi Khemka
• An Important Step in Reforming Water Governance- K J Joy
• Welcome First Step to Much-needed Change- Shripad Dharmadhikary
• Merits Undeniable despite Drawbacks- Nirmal Sengupta
• Water Governance Reform - A Hopeful Starting Point- Rajeswari S Raina
• 21st Century Water Governance - A Mirage or an Opportunity?- Rohini Nilekani
• Evolution of Irrigation Sector- Aditi Mukherji
• Focusing on the Essentials - Integrated Monitoring and Analysis of Water Resources- Sharachchandra Lele, Veena Srinivasan
• Comment on the Proposed National Water Commission- Pradip Khandwalla
• Focus on Sustainable Groundwater Management--Rajiv Sinha, Alexander L Densmore
• The Way Forward- Mihir Shah

NGO's Views ON water :

• VIKALP SANGAM:

What we should know about National Water Commission

http://vikalpsangam.org/article/what-we-should-know-about-national-water-commission/#.WXbqTLZLfIX

• CSE

Government of M.P., WATER RESOURCES Department, State water Policy 2013

http://www.cseindia.org/userfiles/madhya_pradesh.pdf

Regional workshop on ‘Water Resources Conservation: Village Ponds and Lakes’

• http://www.cseindia.org/content/regional-workshop-%E2%80%98water-resources-conservation-village-ponds-and-lakes%E2%80%99

• http://www.cseindia.org/content/regional-workshop-%E2%80%98water-resources-conservation-village-ponds-and-lakes%E2%80%99-0

• PANI POST:

https://panipost.in/category/%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%96/

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Mercury Contamination of the Groundwater in Bhopal

Water In Ancient India : IIT-M

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Global Water Ethics & Indian environmental Philosophy

INDIA WRIS wiki (Water Resource Information System)

CPCB E -TRACK ON NMAMI GANGA

देश के 91 प्रमुख जलाशयों के जलस्तर में दो प्रतिशत की कमी आई

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THE HINDU :

he Hindu explored the multi-faceted crisis of water scarcity that gripped India in the summer of 2016, through a daily series titled ‘Last Drop’. The series sought to give our readers a comprehensive understanding of six critical themes underpinning the scarcity question.

For each theme the series outlined the contours of the crisis at a national level; it also supplied grassroots context, telling compelling stories from villages across the country, to illustrate the hard realities that millions of water-starved rural poor live with daily.

Last Drop: a six-part series on water scarcity  1

Sold down the river : THE HINDU

Dry days: a seven part series on water scarcity in South India :
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