Seven Most Successful Water Conservation Projects in North East India
Water Conservation Projects
Water conservation is the minimization of the use of freshwater resources by the adoption of a sequence of methods as predesigned by the policy makers aimed at maximum utilization of available water resources. Water conservation events range from conservation methods like water monitoring and conservation-friendly building codes instituted by the government, to strategies for everyday people to reduce home water use. Water conservation imbibes reduction of energy use and enforces and enables stakeholders to become economically sustainable.
These five different types of water conservation events can be optimally designed for maximum output:
1. Updating to modern irrigation methods
2. Increasing Forest cover
3. Water conservation legislation.
4. Water redistribution.
5. Agro-based subsidies
However, the main objective of all types of water conservation projects is “When you conserve water, you ensure that there will be enough for people to use in your community."
Northeast India is extremely rich in biodiversity and has innumerable numbers of water bodies. That is why in this area of the Indian Subcontinent the problem is not scarcity of water but utilization of available water. This part of the country does not have any problem finding water, but they are confused about how to use the resource optimally such that all the stakeholders will become economically sustainable and secure with respect to their requirement for water.
Keeping in view of the above Northeast India with its seven states has many water conservation projects which have ensured the sustainable use of the available water resources. In this post, seven water conservation projects from the states of Northeast India were selected based on the most successful implementation of the basic objectives of such projects.