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Potable, groundwater wastage or misuse now punishable offence in India
Updated On: 24 October, 2020 10:04 AM IST | Mumbai | IANS
The notification, issued on October 8, further stated that no person in the country shall waste or misuse potable water resources tapped from underground
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In a landmark development in the history of groundwater preservation in the country, wastage and misuse of potable water or groundwater will, henceforth, be a punishable offence, with the Central Ground Water Authority issuing a notification directing civic bodies to evolve a compliance mechanism with coercive measures for violations.
The notification issued by the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act came in pursuance to the directions passed by the National Green Tribunal on October 15, 2019 in the Rajendra Tyagi vs Union of India case, in which the petitioner had sought to make water wastage and misuse a punishable offence in the country.
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