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Crop Diversification to reuse: Haryana meets 85% Water Conservation Goals

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Crop-Diversification

Haryana saved 5.8 billion cubic meters of water from March 2023 to February 2025, reaching 85% of its target according to HWRA. The state aims to save 6.9 BCM by March 2025 through wastewater reuse, efficient cultivation, crop diversification, micro-irrigation, and groundwater recharge. The initiative began after HWRA identified a deficit of 14.03 trillion liters between water availability (20.9 trillion) and demand (34.96 trillion) for 2020-2022. This is critical as 60% of the state falls in the ‘red’ category for groundwater exploitation. For 2025-26, Haryana plans 244 new water bodies…

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Haryana becomes 3rd state to get clean tap water in every rural household under Jal Jeevan Mission

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Haryana becomes 3rd state to get clean tap water in every rural household under Jal Jeevan Mission

In a major achievement of the Narendra Modi government, Haryana has become the third state of the country where every family in the rural areas has started getting clean tap water in their homes. Goa and Telangana are the two states which have already achieved this feat apart of the Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). Besides these states, three Union Territories (UTs) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Puducherry; and Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli have also achieved 100 percent of the ‘Har Ghar Jal’ Mission. According to…

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