 bill no 125 of   2014 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2014 by shri pp chaudhary, mp a bill further to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-fifth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title1 this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 20142 in the seventh schedule to constitution,—(i) in list ii-state list, entry 17 shall be omitted; and amendment of the seventh schedulenamely:—"32a water, that is to say, water supplies, irrigation and canals, drainage and embankments, water storage and water power subject to the provisions of entry 56 of list i" statement of objects and reasonslife is impossible without water all living beings including human, animals and plants need water for their survival therefore, it is desirable that requisite amount of water is available without any hindrance for drinking and irrigationaround ninety-seven per cent of the water on the earth is salty water and only three per cent is fresh water; slightly over two thirds of this fresh water is frozen in the form of glaciers and polar ice caps the remaining unfrozen fresh water is found mainly as ground waterground water is a renewable resource, yet the world's supply of ground water is steadily decreasing with the depletion of water table, most prominently in asia and north america it is still not clear that how much natural renewal balance of fresh water is available or whether ecosystem will be threatened for want of fresh water in near future the framework for allocating water resources to water users where such a framework exists is known as water rightsat present, water is a state subject and is considered as primary responsibility of the state governmentsthe bill seeks to amend that seventh schedule to the constitution with a view to transfer entry 17 of list ii-state list pertaining to 'water', to list iii-concurrent list so that the parliament and the central government can also play their due role for conservation and sustainable use of water to meet the growing needs of the societyhence this billnew delhi;p p chaudharynovember 12, 2014 annexureextract from the constitution of india list ii-state list17 water, that is to say, water supplies, irrigation and canals, drainage and embankments, water storage and water power subject to the provisions of entry 56 of list i lok  sabha————— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india—————(shri pp chaudhary, mp)gmgipmrnd—2714ls(s3)—26-11-2014