Water Audit & Water Conservation Final

Government of India Ministry Of Water Resources GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR WATER AUDIT & WATER CONSERVATION CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION EVALUATION OF WATER UTILISATION DIRECTORATE December 2005 New Delhi FOREWARD Water is a precious natural national resource with almost fixed quantum of availability. With continuous growth in country’s population, per capita availability of utilizable water is going down, whereas with ever-rising standard of living of people, all around rapid industrialization and urbanization, demand of fresh water is going up continuously. Unabated discharge of industrial effluents into water bodies is further aggravating the situation of scarcity of water of acceptable quality. Inspite of the fact that fresh water is rapidly becoming scarce it is continued to be used wastefully. Declaring water conservation a national mission, in June 2003, the Prime Minister of India, appealed to all countrymen to collectively address the problem of alarmingly progressive water shortage, by conserving every drop of water and suggested for conducting water audit for all sectors of water use. At the global level, about 60-70 percent of total annual water consumption is in irrigation sector. In India water use for irrigation is about 83 percent of current level of total water utilization. Thus apparently there is ample scope of water saving in irrigation sector. Central Water ...