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The effective management of land and water resources will drastically reduce human miseries. Explain.

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What the examiner wants

Explain how better land and water management can cut poverty, drought, floods and disease.

ExplainMake clear how and why it happens: causes, process, and an example for each point.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1Miseries: drought, floods, land degradation, water scarcity, crop failure, migration, health issues≈35 words
  2. 2Land management: soil conservation, land-use planning, afforestation, restoring degraded land≈35 words
  3. 3Water management: watershed, micro-irrigation, rainwater harvesting, aquifer recharge, flood plain zoning≈35 words
  4. 4Examples and institutions: Atal Bhujal Yojana, Jal Shakti Abhiyan, Rajasthan's johads≈35 words

Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.

Answer plan

Link land-water to human miseryLand measuresWater measuresCasesConclusion

Where marks usually go

  • Only water, ignoring land
  • No link to human outcomes

Draw this

  • Cycle: degradation → crop loss → migration, broken by management interventions

Value addition

  • DataAbout 97.85 million hectares (29.7% of India's area) was under land degradation in 2018-19.ISRO Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas, 2021
  • TargetIndia pledged to restore 26 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.Bonn Challenge/UNCCD COP14, 2019

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