Water
Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi staying at A 15, Paryavaran Complex,
New Delhi 110030 (INDIA), Mobile : +91-9818097247 has designed a Masterplan Paradigm for the overall
water management and protection of water reservoirs in the
following manner :
3.1 Principles
a) adopting a total catchment approach to the management of
water;
b) preserving biodiversity and ecological integrity;
c) recognising that the restructuring of the water supply in
India by introduction of free market competition is likely
to be accompanied by a severe loss of social and
environmental accountability and responsibility; and
d) equitable allocation of water amongst all users.
3.2 Goals
a) decrease per capita consumption of fresh water by
increasing efficiency of water use, and expanding
opportunities for re-use;
b) stop the discharge of sewage into aquatic systems;
c) maximise the capacity to reuse sewage treatment
by-products by reducing pollution at source, minimising
waste, and phasing out the discharge of toxic chemicals to
sewerage systems;
d) hold the amount of water captured for human use from
surface aquatic systems and provide environmental flows to
all river systems and their dependent ecosystems;
e) draw water from groundwater systems at rates not greater
than they are replenished;
f) ensure equitable access to adequate supplies of clean
water for human consumption;
g) apply the principles of least-cost planning to the
provision of water, drainage and sewerage services;
h) reduce erosion, sedimentation and pollution of
watercourses, wetlands and estuaries, by protecting and
restoring native riparian vegetation and improving catchment
management;
i) maintain public ownership and control over all major
water supply, distribution, drainage and disposal systems;
j) maintain and where possible increase the area of water
supply catchments that are free of logging, agriculture and
other land uses which degrade water quality
k) provide for full public participation in decisions about
water, drainage and sewerage; and
l) provide information and low -interest loan incentive
programme to assist rural residents to adopt water
conservation practices for domestic and farm use.
3.3 Short Term Targets
a) establish a major new national programme to restore
environmental flows to all river systems and improve water
quality and implement the programme through national
agreements between Central State and/or local governments;
b) use all available powers to maintain major water supply,
distribution, drainage and disposal systems in public
ownership;
c) cancel all plans to build large-scale new dams; and
d) ensure that drinking water supplies meet or exceed WHO
(World Health Organisation) standards, and that their
quality is publicly reported regularly.
