The government in India has taken various steps for water conservation like promoting recharging of underground water, rainwater harvesting, construction of check dams and others. Nonprofits are also playing an important role in popularising the concept of water conservation by working with the stakeholders.

What are the 5 methods of water conservation?

Water conservation can go a long way to help alleviate these impending shortages.

• Check your toilet for leaks. …
• Stop using your toilet as an ashtray or wastebasket. …
• Put a plastic bottle in your toilet tank. …
• Take shorter showers. …
• Install water-saving shower heads or flow restrictors. …
• Take baths.
• In June 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had written to all Sarpanchs across the country stressing on importance of water conservation and harvesting and urged them to adopt all appropriate measures to make water conservation a mass movement. Saving every drop of water becomes even more imperative for a country like India, which houses more than 18% of the world’s population, but has got only 4% of world’s renewable water resources.
• The current water requirement is estimated to be around 1,100 billion cubic meters per year. To meet this high requirement, the government, through various means and measures, has been trying to improve condition of water bodies and better treatment systems. Following are some of the prime measures that have been adopted and furthered.
• – Launch of Jal Shakti Abhiyan in 2019, a campaign intended to improve water availability, conservation and quality.