Narendra Modi Government has asked States to follow the Gujarat water management model
Posted on: 01/Jul/2014 11:04:53 AM
The Narendra Modi Government has asked States to follow the Gujarat water management model to address the issue across the country. The Central Government has in fact, forwarded a CD received from Gujarat Government’s Water and Sanitation Management Organization on the subject, the “State-wide water supply grid” to the States to study how Gujarat successfully addressed water scarcity issue.
Gujarat Water Supply Department Principal Secretary Rajiv Kumar Gupta who says, “Almost 70 per cent of Gujarat’s fresh water resources are located only in 30 per cent of its geographical area restricted to the State’s southern parts. Frequent droughts accentuate this scarcity of water Gujarat. The State thus undertook a sustainable measure to combat this problem by developing a State-wide Water Supply Grid.”
