An Act to provide a broad overarching national legal framework of general principles on water as a vital and stressed natural resource, under which legislation and executive action on water at all levels of governance, as also water-use and actions relating to water by citizens, their associations and voluntary agencies, public and private institutions and bodies corporate of all kinds, can take place, and for matters connected therewith. Prepared by the Sub-Group on a National Water Framework Law set up by the Planning Commission’s Working Group on Water Governance for the Twelfth Plan.