JSA II: Catch The Rain Awareness Generation Campaign
Part of: GS Prelims and GS-III – Environment
In news
National Water Mission (NWM), Ministry of Jal Shakti in collaboration with Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports launched the “JSA II: Catch the Rain” Awareness Generation Campaign.
Key takeaways
Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangthan will undertake the campaign covering 623 districts across the nation from December 2020 to March 2021.
NWM has launched a campaign Catch the rain” with tag line “catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls” in order to nudge all stake-holders to create Rain Water Harvesting Structures (RWHS) to store rain water as rains falling in the four/five months of monsoon are the only source of water for most parts of the country.
Important value additions
The objective of the National Water Mission
Increase water use efficiency by 20% through regulations, differential entitlements and pricing.
A considerable share of water needs of urban areas is to be met through recycling of wastewater.
Water requirements of coastal cities are to be met through the adoption of low-temperature desalination technologies.
Consult with states to ensure that basin-level management strategies are made to deal with variability in rainfall and river flows due to climate change.
Enhance storage above and below ground, implement rainwater harvesting.
Adopt large scale irrigation programmes which rely on sprinklers, drip irrigation and ridge and furrow irrigation.
