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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s water management programmes haven’t cultivated water security or meaningful livelihoods -Nidhi Batra

India’s water management programmes haven’t cultivated water security or meaningful livelihoods -Nidhi Batra

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published Published on Mar 27, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 29, 2022

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These programmes should look at skilling the workforce for paid jobs rather than unpaid, part-time volunteers.

Central government programmes on water emphasise groundwater management by the community in a decentralised manner but, by and large, these schemes are silent on the availability, training and deployment of a skilled workforce for this task, especially in rural areas.

Water management at the most decentralised, local levels is often a part-time, volunteer or unpaid activity. This neither helps cultivate water security nor does it help cultivate meaningful livelihoods to manage precious water resources, found an analysis by the global research organisation, the JustJobs Network, with Bengaluru-based Arghyam, working for safe and sustainable water.

Over 80% of India’s urban and rural domestic water supplies are served by groundwater. India has 18% of the world’s population but only 4% of global renewable water resources within its territory. Over 250 of 700 districts have “critical” or “over-exploited” groundwater levels, according to the most recent Central Ground Water Board data from 2017.

Water management programmes

There are several programmes for water supply and management in India, with the goal of water-secure villages, including one for delivering good quality piped water supply to villages through the Jal Jeevan Mission, for groundwater management through the Atal Bhujal Yojana and for water and sanitation under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

Workers in these programmes should be from the community, have knowledge of the science behind groundwater and surface water, have the skills to support their community to plan water usage based on its availability, and build, operate and maintain structures and systems to ensure water security.

Rural unemployment was at 8.35% as of February, as per data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. On World Water Day, our story highlights the urgent need for skilling and upskilling local workers in water management so as to address the challenges of managing limited resources. This can help India solve two crises: one of greater water insecurity as resources deplete, especially with a warming climate and the second of a lack of gainful employment for the country’s large labour force.

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India Spend/ Scroll.in, 27 March, 2022, https://scroll.in/article/1020102/indias-water-management-programmes-havent-cultivated-water-security-or-meaningful-livelihoods


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