1. Response for reforms in national water
policy (NWP) 2002.
(a)
Intermittent, unreliable, unsafe and in
equitable water supply in urban area.
(b)
Rivers turned into sewers or poison and
acquires contaminated.
(c)
Major and medium irrigation systems in dismay
rendering poor and undesirable service and characterized by inequities of
various kinds
(d)
Alarming depletion of acqufiers in many parts
of the country.
(e)
The environmental /ecological impacts f bug
water resource products poor EIAs, people displacement of failure to resettle
and rehabilitation them.
2. Reversals
of Past Approach.
(a)
Reversing the usual approach of projecting a
future demand and bringing about a supply side response to meet that
demand. We must start front the fact
that the availability of fresh water in nature is finite and learn to manage
our water needs with availability. This
will mean stringent restraint on the growth of demands for water which is
difficult but the effort is inescapable.
(b) A
second reversal will have to be on the supply side. Primacy will have to shift from resource
development (WRD) projects with big dam and reservoirs and canal system to
small decentralized, local, community led, water harvesting and watershed development
programmes, with the big projects being regarded as project of the last
resorts, and the exploitations of the ground water will have to be severely
restrained in the interest of resource conservation as well as equity.
(c) A
third reversal will have to be in relation to rivers, from massive intervention
in flows and maximal abstraction of water to letting the rivers flow and
keeping interventions to the minimum.
(d) A
fourthly reversal will have to be in the relatives roles of the state and the
community from sovereign powers of the state to the state as trustee holding
natural resources in possible trust for the community.
3. Multiple
Perspective.
Fundamental Rights perspective.
Social Justice/ equity perspective.
Women perspective (burden on women
to fetch water).
Community perspective (Balance
between state and community)
State
perspective (legislation and policy formation)
Emerging perspective
Water
quality perspectives.
Citizen
/water user perspective.
Economic
perspective.
Business
perspective.
Environmental
/ecological perspective.
4. The ecological and social justice
perspective will have to be overreaching prospective and all other perspective
subordinated to them.
5. Dharma Perspective.
(a) The
poor, deprived, disadvantaged or disempowered
(b) Other human sharing the resource in our state or other states
our country or other country our generation or future generation.
(c) Other
species or forms of life.
(d) Rivers,
lakes, acqufiers, forest, and nature in general planet earth itself.
6. In place of integrated water resources management
(INRM), Responsible,Harmonious, just and wise use of water (RHJWUW) is recommended.
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