TNPSC Thervupettagam

Bengaluru’s Water Conservation Score

March 23 , 2020 1467 days 614 0
  • Karnataka’s capital Bengaluru — high on the list of India’s water-stressed districts.
  • This is a cause of concern for the Union government’s Jal Shakti Abhiyaan (JSA) initiative.
  • The initiative addresses the water and irrigation needs of 255 water-stressed districts across the country.
  • Bengaluru received an abysmal 200th rank in terms of water conservation work done under JSA, with a score of a mere 11 percentage.
  • Laws were placed since 2008 that mandate construction of rainwater harvesting structures in all public spaces and residence buildings.
  • Still the city has been under considerable stress over depleting water sources and immense pollution in its several lakes.
  • Also, Karnataka’s 2017 wastewater policy also advocates for interventions similar to those described under JSA and allocates a 20 per cent reuse target.
  • None of these was reflected in the Bengaluru district’s scorecard that gave it a zero on all fields except for uploading details of five conservation sites.

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