Focus on preservation of ground water resources

 
Preservation of groundwater resources and scientific evaluation of quality of drinking water will be the thrust areas during the campaign of the State Government to deal with water scarcity, announced Minister for Water Resources N.K.Premachandran. He was inaugurating the yearlong programmes of the government in connection with World Water Day. As part of evaluating the quality of drinking water, the government will test the quality of 50 water resources in each ward under the 999 gramapanchayats and the results thus collected as a database in the laboratories. He said that the yearlong campaign had to be supplemented by specific laws, which would help book the culprits. The Government is also planning to distribute field testing kits, ie the kits to test quality of water, in schools.

(The New Indian Express, 23rd  March,2007)