Important Suggestions for Saving Water
- Decentralized Water Use Audit: There is a need for a dedicated water use audit mechanism in India that identifies and eliminates water loss in water distribution systems at the local level due to lack of awareness, overuse excessive, and contamination of water bodies.
- Localized Water Resources Management: The role of the Jal Jeevan Mission should be viewed from a dual perspective, with an emphasis on both supply management and sustainability/sustainability of water resources, as the word ‘Jal Jeevan’ also means water life. The healthy life of humans can only be imagined when it harmonizes with the healthy life of water.
- Therefore, there is a need to implement effective watershed management plans at the city level and rainwater harvesting should be made compulsory in every household.
- Combine women’s empowerment with Jal Jeevan’s mission: As water scarcity disproportionately disadvantages women, ensuring availability and access to tap water allows women living in rural areas to spend time with their children and contribute to the development process. It may be useful to participate. Furthermore, this mission may help reduce the practice of ‘water wives’ that is prevalent in Maharashtra.
- Ensuring 50% women’s participation in the Village Water and Sanitation Committee (VWSC) is a welcome step in this direction.
- Water Conservation Zone and Jal Dhan Abhiyan: It is necessary to prohibit recharge or further extraction of groundwater resources in the most affected areas to allow time for water recharge. This can be achieved by establishing such water conservation zones in cities where zero exploitation conditions are created.
- An awareness campaign should also be carried out to inform citizens about the efficient use of water, for which a mascot called ‘Neer’ can be used.
Jal Jeevan Mission (Rural and Urban)
Jal Jeevan (Rural and Urban) Mission is an important Indian government scheme. In every government exam like SSC CGL, RAILWAY, BANKING, and some other related exams questions were asked about the government schemes. So further we are describing all aspects and dimensions of the Jal Jeevan (Rural and Urban) Mission. This article will help in the upcoming government exams.
- Water is a natural and economic resource, unique and irreplaceable. It is unevenly distributed on our planet, which underlines its competitive and conflictive nature. India offers a fitting example of the impact of the unequal distribution of this scarce resource on a growing population.
- India accounts for 18% of the total world population. But India has only 4% of the world’s freshwater resources to meet basic water requirements for this population, showing the challenge of water distribution and access.
- The Government of India through its Jal Jeevan (Rural and Urban) Mission has recognized the ‘Right to Water’ and aims to provide an equitable distribution of fully functional tap water connections.
- But the mismanagement of water bodies, pollution, and the excessive use of groundwater highlight the main challenges related to water management, as well as the abuse of the ‘right to water and the need for urgent attention towards sustainable water management.