Abstract: India’s freshwater resource is a natural endowment that enables its economy and human settlement patterns. The resource comprises of river systems, groundwater and wetlands. Each of these has characteristic linkage to other environmental entities.
This is an abstract taken from the National Environment Policy, 2006, published by the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India.
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