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NAPCC
NATIONAL WATER MISSION To save every single drop
National Water Mission uses the provisions of the National Water Policy 2002, to propose development of a framework to optimise water use efficiency by 20 percent
The National Water Mission aims at achieving integrated water resource management that will help conserve water, minimise its wastage, and ensure more equitable distribution across the country. The mission uses the provisions of the National Water Policy (NWP 2002) to propose the development of a framework to optimise water use efficiency by 20 percent. This is to be done through regulatory mechanisms with differential entitlements and pricing. They include:
a) design incentive structure to promote water-neutral and/or water-positive technologies, which would in turn ensure several cobenefits in the future; b) Focus on SMEs (small and medium enterprises) that form an important sector in water usage;
c) recycling waste water to meet a considerable share of urban water needs;
d) implement desalination technologies (such as low temperature desalination), which allow the use of ocean water for use in coastal cities;
e) optimising efficiency of existing irrigation systems and rehabilitation of systems that have been run down;
f) formulating management strategies on a river basin scale;
g) revisiting the National Water Policy in view of recent trends in variability in rainfall and temperature affecting the flow in rivers;
h) enhancing water storage capacity, rainwater harvesting, recharging of groundwater sources, and efficient governance; and
i) assessing the regional impacts of climate change on water resources.
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