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Best of BS Opinion: A fiscal road map, conserving groundwater, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Conserving groundwater

Rules must contain wasteful use in agriculture

Unauthorised groundwater extraction for commercial use is criminal: NGT

There is no absolute right to extract groundwater for commercial purpose and doing so without authorisation is a criminal offence, the NGT said

2.5 mn got piped-water connections during Covid: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

In a Q&A, Jal Shakti Minister says he is confident the pandemic will not delay the targets under the Har Ghar Jal initiative or lead to any fund crunch

PM Modi launches Atal Bhujal Yojana, aims to improve groundwater management

Urging farmers to switch over to crops that use less water, he exhorted people not to waste the precious natural resource in daily household needs

This conservationist sets legal, social examples to save Delhi's wetlands

Arya filed a case against against the Noida Authority for causing the denudation and environmental distress

22% groundwater has either dried up or in critical category: Jal Sakti Min

The government has also started the work of mapping aquifer and by next March

We have severely underinvested in waste water treatment: Veena Srinivasan

According to a NITI report, 21 cities in India will run out of groundwater which will affect 100 million people. Veena Srinivasan, a water expert, tells us what is India's problem with regard to water

Water needs trans-disciplinary governance

Although groundwater now provides more than two-thirds of India's water, the more it has grown in significance, the weaker groundwater departments have become at the Centre and in the states

Mumbai: FIR registered against six persons for theft of groundwater

Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against 6 persons in Azad Maidan police station for allegedly stealing groundwater amounting to more than Rs 70 cr over the past several years

Shakuntala Devi's pumpkin saga

We don't necessarily need only large scale, expensive measures to address our water woes, says the author

Jal Chaupals in the city

UP's Jal Chaupal, water budgeting meetings, make us realise that every drop counts

Letter to BS: Over 70% of India's water comes from below the ground

The conduction of research is welcome but ground level implementation is an immediate necessity

Groundwater level 'over-exploited' in 16% talukas, mandals and blocks: Govt

The over exploitation of the groundwater was highest in the states of Punjab (76%) and Rajasthan (66%), followed by Delhi (56%) and Haryana (54%)

Groundwater depleting in north, east India, droughts' risk rises: IIT study

Groundwater-level data was used from 3,907 in situ monitoring wells across the country and the total UGWS was estimated between 2005 and 2013

Centre's notification on groundwater flawed, not to be given effect: NGT

The NGT has asked the Centre not to give effect to its December notification on groundwater extraction as it has "serious shortcomings", and directed it to set up an expert panel for formulation of a policy on conservation of the natural resource. Fast depletion of groundwater in recent years is a "cause of concern for human well being", it said. The National Green Tribunal has directed the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to set up an expert panel that includes representatives from IIT, IIM, CPCB and NITI Aayog to examine the issue of forming appropriate policy for conservation of ground water in the country. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel said the "Ministry of Water Resources' (MoWR) in December 12, 2018 notification pertaining to groundwater extraction may not be given effect to in view of serious shortcomings" so that an appropriate mechanism can be introduced consistent with the needs of environment. The tribunal said it was ...

Groundwater like 'fixed deposit', allow limited use: Par panel to govt

The panel said the government should encourage the water packaging industries based on the public-private-partnership model

Delhi groundwater depletion a serious problem, says Supreme Court

You are doing nothing to reduce water consumption: SC to Delhi govt on groundwater issue

Story in numbers: India's groundwater: Contaminated and dying

According to a Central Groundwater Board report as many as 650 cities and towns lie along polluted rivers, which contaminate groundwater

Recharge groundwater to keep taps flowing, say experts

According to a recent Central Water Commission report, water levels in the Maharashtra reservoirs are 58 per cent below normal