{"id":4256,"date":"2019-09-03T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2019-09-03T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:13:00","slug":"composite-water-management-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/composite-water-management-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Composite water management index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Prelims\/mains: G.S paper II: Indian Polity: Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The composite water management index (CWMI) 2.0 was recently released by the NITI Aayog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About the index<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The states are ranked across 9 themes and cover 25 states and 2 union territories. [It does not include data from West Bengal, Mizoram, Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir.]<\/li>\n<li>This has been done through a first of its kind water data collection exercise.<\/li>\n<li>It was done in partnership with the ministry of jal shakti, ministry of rural development and all the states\/union territories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The CWMI is an important tool to assess and improve the performance of states and union territories in efficient management of water resources.<\/li>\n<li>It is an attempt to create a pan-India set of metrics that measure different dimensions of water management and use across the lifecycle of water.<\/li>\n<li>The objective of the index is to involve all key stakeholders to understand how states can better manage water resources.<\/li>\n<li>It provides useful information for the states and for the concerned central ministries\/departments.<\/li>\n<li>This is to enable them to formulate and implement suitable strategies for better management of water resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CWMI 2.0 ranks various states for the reference year 2017-18 as against the base year 2016-17.<\/li>\n<li>Gujarat has retained its first position in the Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) 2.0 Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Goa and Karnataka have topped the CWMI 2.0 for 2017-18 among non-Himalayan states.<\/li>\n<li>Among Himalayan states, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Tripura are on top of the index.<\/li>\n<li>The report points out that 82% of rural households in India do not have individual piped water supply. 163 million live without access to clean water close to their homes.<\/li>\n<li>Around 80% of the states assessed over the last 3 years have improved their water management scores, with an average improvement of 5.2 points.<\/li>\n<li>However, 16 out of 27 states still score less than 50 points on the index, out of 100.<\/li>\n<li>They account for 48% of the population, 40% of agricultural produce and 35% of economic output of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Index implications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>States are displaying progress in water management, but the overall performance remains below what is required to tackle the challenges.<\/li>\n<li>High-performers continue to demonstrate strong water management practices, but low-performers are struggling to cope up.<\/li>\n<li>By 2030, India\u2019s water demand will exceed supply by two times, indicating severe water scarcity in the country.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, 820 million Indians living in 12 river basins have a per capita water availability close to or lower than 1,000 cubic metres.<\/li>\n<li>This is notably the official threshold for water scarcity. The average all-India per capita water availability is expected to be 1,341 cubic metres by 2025.<\/li>\n<li>It could touch a low of 1,140 cubic metres by 2050, close to the official water scarcity threshold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The states need to build on this momentum, and upgrade their water management practices to show outcomes and not just outputs.<\/li>\n<li>Areas like agriculture could have a larger impact on saving water along with focusing on low performing states.<\/li>\n<li>Several disparities exist in water management amongst states.<\/li>\n<li>Improved knowledge-sharing amongst states can enable them to learn and solidify water management practices across the board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims\/mains: G.S paper II: Indian Polity: Governance Context The composite water management index (CWMI) 2.0 was recently released by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}