
As the Jal Shakti Abhiyan is shaping up, a piece of information that the Jal Shakti Minister has shared with The Times of India gives us an idea of how the government is approaching the issue of water conservation at a micro-level.
This will help us identifying the gradient and how the water flows naturally.
This will help us in water conservation and rainwater harvesting”, The Times of India has quoted the Minister as saying.
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing rock which holds the groundwater.
At that juncture, an area of 14 lakh sq.km was targeted to be covered under the aquifer mapping during the period 2017-2022.
In an interview given to The Hindu the minister has stated this:


July 1, 2019 is to be marked as an important day, as the nation officially starts the ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan’ to conserve water in this monsoon season.
The mission will run from July 1 to September 15, and for selected states till November.
In fact, PM Modi in his first Mann Ki Baat after his re-election has spoken in detail on the need for water conservation and specified the three ways to go about it as well.
But with the launch of Jal Shakti Abhiyan, specific administrative measures from the government have become evident and it is interesting to see how the Central government has planned this movement to reach the grassroots.
This notification regarding the appointment of Block Nodal Officers for Jal Shakti Abhiyan gives the picture of how the government is planning to address the issue of water conservation.
Rainwater harvesting, renovation of water bodies, borewell recharge, watershed development and intensive afforestation are the focus areas.

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