What do you think about sustainable development for fresh water.  In a near future many countries will be engaged in this process. What can...

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What do you think about sustainable development for fresh water.  In a near future many countries will be engaged in this process. What can we do to help? How to preserve the fresh water in a much sustainable manner to save it especially for future generations from rain and similar processes.

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  1. Bijan, Sustainable development of fresh water requires three pronged strategy to address the issue. One is to improve water use efficiency to manage the demand in each sector. This has to be done by adoption of right technological options which are appropriate to the local condition and have easy to adopt.
    Second is to plan rain water harvesting, promote artificial recharge for augmenting ground water, increase soil moisture through soil & water conservation measures and increase surface storage. These intervention will ensure the availability fresh water to meet the emerging demand.

    Assessment of water resources and mapping of aquifer storage is the third and important area, this has to be done along with proper institutional mechanism for regulation and managing the water resources. It requires more intensive work at different level. There is need to adopt decentralized system of water governance wherein state provides a broad framework to operate and community based organisation are engaged in decision making to manage the resources at local level. Of-course financing for these work is more crucial, there is need for government to invest in this work to meet the fresh water requirement of future generation.