GOVERNMENT REALISING ON GOING DELAY IN DECIDING THE INTERA -STATE WATER DISPUTES BROUGHT TO THE NOTICE OF THE COURTS AND TRIBUNALS AND BRINGING INTER -STATE RIVER WATER DISPUTES (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2019.

Rain water is derived from the water vapours rising from the seas , rivers lakes ,etc , forming into the clouds and thus condensing as rain, hail or snow.On reaching the earth ,part of it is held by the top soil to feed vegetation ,but the remainder either falls upon impervious surfaces or percolates through the earth, and we obtain it from the sources as well as the water supplies.It is observed that some states are in scarcity of the required availability of water and the government may bring water on the concurrent list of the constitution as inter -state water disputes are going on with in the states and pending in the tribunals and courts at different stages . Among the pending disputes the decades old issue related to construction of the SYL canal for the river water sharing between Punjab and Haryana,the said matter is pending before the honourable supreme court of India and the two states are unable to reach a resolution despite the center's intervention at the courts behest .Infact seven to eight disputes are still pending in the courts and the tribunals at different stages however more than two hundred intra- state and the international water cooperation mechanism have been working successfully on the water sharing since for the long.As such it is experienced in respect of challenges between the different states regarding division of the river waters and the Tribunals are working however issue and matter pending and taking no required decision with the satisfactory conclusion and the Government has decided to take the legislative route to fix this gap for which the Loksabha had approved the inter-state water disputes (Amendment Bill) ,2019 and now the Rajya sabha would pass the proposed Bill .