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to encourage participation of communities and voluntary agencies and to launch public awareness programmes for conservation, preservation and protection of lakes. Hence, the Bill. [L.A. Bill No. 69 of 2014, File No. Samvyashae 07 Shasana 2012] [entries 17 and 32 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] 3 KARNATAKA ACT NO. 10 OF 2015 (First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the Seventh day of March 2015) THE KARNATAKA LAKE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ACT, 2014 (Received the assent of the Governor on the Third day of March 2015) An Act to provide for establishment of a Lake Conservation and Development Authority and other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto; Whereas, the Apex Court has already ruled that right to water is a part of right to life guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Whereas, due to rapid urbanization, industrialization and population explosion, water bodies like tanks and lakes are being converted into urban and industrial land use after breaking bund and draining water; Whereas, such destruction of water bodies leads to acute shortage of water and rapid depletion of ground water and thereby affecting availability of water for irrigation, drinking and consumption by live stock, besides affecting aquatic flora and fauna and accordingly there is an urgent need for protection, conservation and rejuvenation of water bodies; And now therefore, it is expedient to provide for establishment of a Karnataka Lake Conservation and Development Authority having necessary powers and functions to achieve the object of protection, conservation and rejuvenation of water bodies like tanks, lakes, wet lands and their catchment areas, inlets and outlets for ensuring long term sustenance of such water bodies, and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the sixty fifth year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY