Water Balance Study in a Golegaon : Case Study

The water scarcity for Marathwada region, Maharashtra (India) occurs frequently after every year. Golegaon village which is situated in marathwada region received average annual rainfall of 614.21 mm according to past available data but still village face the drought condition for occasionally. Thus, water balance study was taken as the research for given Golegaon region using various technical tools. When studied the given study area, it has been founded the village can collected about 3014.43 TCM water in its catchment. The Total Water Demand (TWD) and Crop water requirement (CWR) for total cultivable area, human-livestock water requirement have to reschedule and redesign for given village. For this purpose we required to know the watershed of given region. Watershed and slope terrain of a region has been prepared using Arc GIS 10.1 software. After studying, specific yield of irrigated area and type of crop for village, it has been observed that whatsoever water precipitated within village boundary fulfils the demand. But due to lack of system, 550 TCM water get flush away and creating scarcity. Total remedy measures were suggested to built structures and cropping pattern to given region.