(1) The Authority shall prepare the State Water Security Plan, which shall be finalised after approval by the Government, taking into account progressively available information regarding water resources, including aquifer, in consultation with elected local representatives.
(2) The objectives of the Water Security Plan shall be:-
(a) attainment of sufficient quantity of safe water for life and sustainable livelihoods;
(b) ensuring water security even in times of emergencies like droughts, floods and pandemics or any natural calamity etc.
(3) The Water Security Plan shall be prepared at the lowest administrative level, taking into account the fact that where an aquifer does not fall under the jurisdiction of a single Gram Panchayat, block, district, ward or municipality, the plan must integrate inputs at all the levels of the Authority under whose jurisdiction the whole aquifer falls.
Water Security Plan.