ForNational water policy the present work, the four cardinal principles suggested by the International Conference on Water and Environment 1992 at Dublin may be worth quoting.
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 ...
Water resources issuesThe water policy of the United States of America has evolved over many years from an uncoordinated and often narrowly focused collection of legislative and administrative actions. Unfortunately, these elements are frequently in conflict, with the result that efforts to assure ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
THE recently issued report of the Joint Con-JL ference of the Institution of Water Engineers, the British Waterworks Association and the Water Companies Association on national water policy is a document of considerable interest, dealing, as it does, with a matter of vital public importance which...
Wastewater is now considered as a resource rather than waste and is a major aspect of the hydrological system. This chapter reports on the various laws and policy governing water supply in South Africa as well as the current state of water and wastewater infrastructure in South Africa....
This is a report on a national water policy presented to Parliament by the Ministries of Health and of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland. The present position is reviewed and suggestions are made for greater ministerial powers, so that supplies may be conserved and...