Weighing in on water

As the management of India’s water resources made the transition from international protocol to state policy to legislation and finally to rules and orders, it ought to have gathered specificity at each step. For instance, a law should include, among other things, the powers and duties of the concerned authorities and penal provisions for violation. The national water framework law (NWFL), as included in the recently approved National Water Policy (NWP) 2012, interestingly includes neither.

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