ABSTRACT
Increasing population, growing urbanization, and rapid industrialization combined with the need for raising agricultural production generates competing claims for water from domestic, industrial and agricultural sector. There is a growing perception of a sense of an impending water crisis in India. In the past few decades, over exploitation of surface and groundwater has resulted in water scarcity in some regions. Irrigation, being
the major water user, its share in the total freshwater demand is bound to decrease from the present 83% to 74% due to more pressing and competing demands from other sectors by 2025 AD [10], and the country will face water scarcity if adequate and sustainable water management initiatives are not implemented.
