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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Water Resources Minister, Mr T. M. Jacob, has said that the State Government would come out with a new water policy.

An official said here that the Minister announced this while chairing a meeting that discussed the draft of the new policy. Planned and systematic use of available water resources on a sustainable basis is basically the burden of the new policy.

According to the Minister, the policy would deviate from the established pattern that gave predominant focus to building individual dams and drinking water projects. Priority will be given to rainwater harvesting and comprehensive schemes aimed at protection of riverbeds. The new policy will set its priorities in the following order of precedence - drinking water, irrigation, power generation, industry, environment and water transport.

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