A Geographical Analysis of Water Resources in Osmanabad District

Abstract:

The natural resources are base of a region includes the elements of climate, land, water, soil and biodiversity. They dictate the opportunities for livelihoods and incomes for the people of the region. Water finite in quantity, tangible in nature, and unequally distributed through out the world. Water is essential to human life. Growing water scarcity has become a very real obstacle to sustainable development. Therefore, an attempt is made here to ananlyse water resources in Osmanabad District.  The present paper is based on secondary sources of data source. To find out variability in actual water storage, irrigated the statistical technique i. e. coefficient of variation is used. The analysis reveals that the high variability in actual water storage in Turori, Khasapur, Rui, Sakat and Chandani dams are mainly because these dams are situated in low and uncertain rainfall area, which indicates that there is not consistency in actual water storage in turn no guaranty of agriculture production.