The Ministry of Water Resources is at present engaged in revising the National Water Policy 2002. Instead of trying to make changes in the 2002 Policy, the ministry should put it aside and draft a new policy, starting from first principles. In that context, the draft presented here is an ...
It is ironic that only after more than a hundred years of "institutionalised" public development does the country finally has a specifically written National Water Resources Policy (NWRP). "The NWRP which was officially launched on 24th March 2012 asserts that "the security and sustainability of...
The Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, had formulated national water policies in 1987 and 2002; and the draft National Water Policy 2012 was recently approved. The latter has highlighted the need for a National Water Framework Law in India to develop a national perspective on ...
Based on the French model, Brazil established the National WaterResources Policy that created a charging system for the use of the water resources.The values collected by the charging system should be used in the hydrographicbasin where the collection occurred. The first charging system for the ...
Nonetheless, the influence of the NWC on the evolution of water policy cannot be dismissed. Many of the problems that the Commission identified remain today, and some actions since 1973 have moved water policy toward alignment with NWC recommendations; others have moved it in the opposite ...
MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES National Water Policy, 1987 Need for a National Water Policy 1.1 Water is a prime natural resource, a basic human need and a precious national asset. Planning and development of water resources need to be governed by national perspectives. 1.2 It has been estimated ...
G.N. Kathpalia Rakesh Kapoor, “Water Policy and Action Plan for India 2020: An Alternative Future Development”, Research and Communications Group, 2002, available at http://planningcommission.gov.in/reports/genrep/bkpap2020/10_bg2020.pdf, [accessed on 20 September 2013]. 47. Shiney Varghes...
Policy Brief - National Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Policy
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View PDFView articleGoogle Scholar Hassanzadeh et al., 2016a E. Hassanzadeh, A. Elshorbagy, H. Wheater, P. Gober A risk-based framework for water resource management under changing water availability, policy options, and irrigation expansion Adv. Water Resour., 94 (2016), pp. 291-306 View...