National Water Mission under National Action Plan on Climate Change: Revised Comprehensive Mission Documents - Ministry of Water Resources (2009)

This article features the mission document of the National Water Mission, which is one of the eight missions being constituted under the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC).

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The National Water Mission (NWM), under the aegis of the Ministry of Water Resources, is one of the eight missions being constituted under the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC). The NAPCC was launched by the Prime Minister in 2009 as a nation-wide effort to tackle climate change.

Volume I

of this mission document gives an overview of the context, objectives, goals and strategies, monitoring and evaluation mechanism and institutional setup, plan of action/timelines, research development training and capacity building plan and fund requirements. It also gives details of the composition of various Advisory Boards, High-level Steering Committee, Technical Committee and Secretariat being setup to run the Mission.

Volume II

of the mission document has reports of each of following six Sub-committees set up under the Mission, which are: 1. Policy and Institutional Framework, 2. Surface Water Management, 3. Ground Water Management, 4. Domestic and Industrial Water Management, 5. Efficient Use of Water for Various Purposes, 6. Basin-level Planning and Management.

Details of the objective, strategies, thrust activities, action points and functioning are listed below.

Objective

The overall objective of the NWM, as stated in the mission document is "conservation of water, minimizing wastage and ensuring its more equitable distribution both across and within States through integrated water resources development and management”.

Strategies

The mission will adopt strategies which lead to an integrated plan for sustainable development and efficient management of water resources, with active participation of the stakeholders. It will identify and evaluate various development scenarios and management practices, on the basis of dependable projection of the impacts of climate change on water resources based on reliable data and information. It will also focus on integrated water resources planning and convergence between various water resources programmes.

Other identified strategies of the Mission also aim to review:

Important Thrust Activities

Apart from the activities related to the identified strategies, some of the important thrust activities of the Mission will be:

Action Points

For achieving the objectives of the Mission, long-term sustained efforts both in terms of time bound completion of identified activities and ensuring the implementation of identified policies and enactment of necessary legislation through persuasion at different levels with the State Governments have been envisaged. The mission document identifies some of the following specific action points by 2012:

Functioning

Functioning of the National Water Mission will be at a ministry level and inter-sectoral groups have been constituted combining resources from other relevant ministries, industry, academia and civil society. A dedicated Mission Secretariat has also been proposed.

Read the mission documents:

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