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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 CampaignHighlights
- Emphasis was given on need to focus on water conservation and rainwater harvesting.
- Youngsters in the revolutionary campaign should be involved
- The highest priority to the issue of water conservation and the need of the hour is to adopt an integrated approach towards water management.
- The awareness generation phase of campaign will run from mid-December 2020 to March 2021.
About the campaign
- 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)
- Which is suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata 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.
- Drives to make water harvesting pits, rooftop RWHS and check dams; removal of encroachments and de-silting of tanks to increase their storage capacity; removal of obstructions in the channels which bring water to them from the catchment areas; repairs to traditional water harvesting
- structures like step-wells and using defunct bore-wells and old wells to put the water back to aquifers etc.
Source: PIB
