Rajesh SharmaKAVITA NITHARWAL2023-10-202023-10-202021https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810199504Indian agriculture is gambler of Indian mansoon, majority of the crops survives on the availability of rain water but as we all know mansoon is discreate in all over the country. Water is an essential and precious resource upon which our ecosystems and agricultural production depend. However, water a natural resource of the world constitutes, 1,384 million cubic kilometers of which around 97.39 per cent (i.e. 1,348 million cubic meters) of water is in the oceans, which is salty in nature. Another 2.61 percent (i.e. 36 million cubic meters) is fresh water of this 77.23 per cent (27.82 million cubic meters) is in the polar ice caps, icebergs and glaciers. Only small fraction of water resources (0.59 % or 8.2 million cubic meters) of the earth present on the ground, lakes, rivers, and atmosphere and are useful to mankind. Whereas, more than 99 percent of water present on the earth is not useful to mankind. Water resources in India include precipitation, surface and groundwater storage and hydropower potential. India‟s average precipitation is 1,170 millimeters (46 inch) per year, or about 1,720 cubic meters (61,000 cubic feet) of fresh water per person every year. India accounts for 18 per cent world population and about 4 per cent of the world‟s water resources (Deshmukh, 2018).EnglishThesis