The National Water Mission aims to conserve water resources through integrated management. Its five main goals are to create a comprehensive water database, promote conservation efforts, focus on overexploited areas, implement water projects, and encourage groundwater recharge. The mission also plans to incentivize water recycling, practice integrated management, and increase capacity building and awareness programs especially in vulnerable areas. If successful, the water mission will help conserve water quality and quantity, ensure access, reduce depletion and pollution.

4. CONSERVATION OF
WATER.
 Rainwater, when allowed to replenish
existing aquifers, helps increase the
quality of groundwater.
 Surface tanks can be used to store
rainwater for reuse by residents.

5. WHAT IS WATER MISSION?
 The objective of the National Water Mission is
“conservation of water, minimizing wastage and ensuring
its more equitable distribution both across and within
States through integrated water resources development
and management”.
 The five identified goals of the Mission are:
(a) comprehensive water data base in public domain and
assessment of impact of climate change on water
resource;

6. (b) promotion of citizen and state action for water
conservation, augmentation and preservation;
(c) focused attention to over-exploited areas

7. •
Review of National Water Policy;
• Research and studies on all aspects related to impact of
climate change on water resources including quality
aspects of water resources;
• Expeditious implementation of water resources projects
particularly the multipurpose projects with carry over
storages;
• Promotion of traditional system of water conservation;
• Intensive programme for ground water recharge in over-
exploited areas;
• Incentivize for recycling of water including wastewater;
• Planning on the principle of integrated water resources
development and
management.

8. •
 Rain water harvesting is
another way in which we
can conserve water.
 When washing dishes by hand, don't let the water run.
 Run your washing machine and dishwasher only when they
are full. You can save up to 1,000 gallons a month!
Intensive capacity building and awareness programme
including those for Panchayati Raj Institutions, urban local
bodies and youths.
• Sensitization of elected representatives of over exploited
area on dimensions of the problem and to orient investment
under NREGA towards water conservation.

9. ADVANTAGE
S
The water mission has
many advantages:
 It conserves the quality
of water.
 It reduces water
depletion.
 It ensures that every
person gets water.
 It helps to reduce
water pollution.

11. DSTRIBUTION OF GROUND
WATER

18. The water saving device is you.
 Every drop of water wasted is, himself wasting
one second of his life.
 Let’s make every drop count.
 Water is the best of all things.
 Save water, it will save you later!
 Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink
 When you conserve water, you conserve life!