Draft National Water Framework Bill, 2016
This draft bill released by the Union government aims to provide an overarching legal framework with principles for protection, conservation, regulation and management of water as a vital and stressed natural resource. It will be circulated as a model bill to the states, to replace the existing draft law of 2013.
The Draft National Water Framework Bill provides an overarching national legal framework based on principles for protection, conservation, regulation and management of water as a vital and stressed natural resource, under which legislation and executive action on water at all levels of governance can take place.
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