* Awareness of water as scarce resource needs to be fostered
* Climate change adaptation through measures such as increasing water storage
* A system to evolve efficiency benchmarks i.e. water footprints and water auditing
* Saving water in irrigation use
* Water should be increasingly subjected to allocation and pricing on economic principles
* Declining groundwater levels in over-exploited areas need to be arrested
* All clearances should be made timebound.
