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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Water resources: PM seeks ‘national legal framework’

Water resources: PM seeks ‘national legal framework’

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published Published on Apr 12, 2012   modified Modified on Apr 12, 2012
-Express News Service

Terming the existing institutional and legal structures of water management in the country as “inadequate”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday advocated for “urgent” reforms and batted for an “overarching national legal framework” for the governance of the sector.
 
Inaugurating India Water Week, which will be celebrated in April every year from now, Singh said: “One of the problems in achieving better management is that the current institutional and legal structures that deal with water in our country are inadequate, fragmented and need urgent reform.” He stressed that the planning, development and management of water resources should “keep pace with current realities”.

As an example of water management not keeping pace with current realities, the PM highlighted the misuse of water resources because of “sub-optimal pricing” of water and advocated the need for increased efficiency in the use of water in irrigation. “The present legal situation gives every land holder the right to pump unlimited quantities of water from a borewell on his own ground. There is no regulation of ground water extraction and no coordination among competing uses. Inadequate and sub-optimal pricing of both power and water is promoting the misuse,” the PM underlined and suggested that “we need to move to a situation where groundwater can be treated as a common property resource”.

Singh lent his support to the idea of a national framework for the water sector legislations in states for regulation of the demand-supply management of water resources in a holistic manner. “There is a suggestion that a broad overarching national legal framework of general principles on water is necessary to pave the way for essential legislation on water governance in every state,” he added in an apparent reference to the proposal in the draft National Water Policy.

Singh suggested the need for a “transparent and participatory mechanisms of pricing of water” on the demand side and “convergence and integration” of various government programmes for the supply side management of resources.

Water Resources Minister Pawan Bansal, too, stressed that the demand side management was an economically more viable option than harnessing more water resources in the long term, given the water scarcity in the country.

The Indian Express, 11 April, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Water-resources--PM-seeks--national-legal-framework-/935116/


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