Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman 2023

About Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman:

• Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman’ is to highlight and acknowledge the leadership and contribution of women at the grass-root level in the journey towards making a ‘Swachh Sujal Bharat’.
• The women achievers who have contributed exceptionally to ODF Plus Model Villages, Har Ghar Jal Villages, Water Conservation, etc. under the National Flagship Missions were felicitated.
• This year’s event was organized by the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti to honour the women champions of the rural water and sanitation sector.

What is the Catch the Rain campaign?

• Catch the Rain is a Jan Andolan campaign to encourage all stakeholders to create rainwater harvesting structures (RWHS).
• Tag line: Catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls.
• The campaign is implemented by the National Water Mission (NWM), Ministry of Jal Shakti.
• The campaign takes place across the country, in both rural and urban areas.

Q1) What is a Hydrological cycle?

The water cycle or hydrologic is a continuous cycle where water evaporates, travels into the air and becomes part of a cloud, falls down to earth as precipitation, and then evaporates again. This repeats again and again in a never-ending cycle. Water keeps moving and changing from a solid to a liquid to a gas, over and over again.

Source: PRESIDENT OF INDIA CONFERS SWACHH SUJAL SHAKTI SAMMAN 2023

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