Geographical Audit of surface water resources in Ahmadpur tahsil

A water resource is one of the most important substances on the Earth. As per research study today’s fresh water is a scarce resource. India being poor in water resource management, the scarcity of water is a well-known fact in India. Most of the rain falling on the surface tends to flow away rapidly, leaving very little for there charge of groundwater. As a result, in the most parts of India experience lack of water. Ahmadpur is one of tahsil in Latur district experiencing same water scarcity due to lack of water resource management. Water resource management is must for sustanable development and to overcome water scarcity of Ahmadpur. It is known that water resource mangment reqiure appropriate water resource information. In this study surface water resources audit and analysis have been done to genrate water resource information for water resource management. New data format, techniques such as Geogrpahical information system (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and methods aer used to extract information. Study area most of the area surface runoff coeffience is below 0.38 and surface water collection capacity is below 278 liter per Sq. meter because Ahmadpur thasil majority land comes under gentele slope and agriculture use. Ahmadpur tahsil surface water potential is appraised it is about 215.34 MCM (Million Cubic meter) and inflow water is about 87 MCM. All over Ahmadpur tahsil 255.49 MCM water is collected in various water storage structures out of 303.28 MCM. Overall 84.24 % surface water resource development found in Ahmadpur tahsil.