International Journal of Advanced Research and Publications (IJARP) ISSN: 2456-9992 6 Volume 1 Issue 4, Oct 2017 www.ijarp.org Assessment Of Water Resources And Status Of Quality Of Water In India Neha Parveen, Md Safikul Islam, Md Nawaj Sarif, Lubna Siddiqui, Abdul Qadir Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, INDIA, nehaanis@rediffmaill.com Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, INDIA, author3@email.com Author University, Department of Tourism, Hotel, Hospitality and Heritage Studies Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, INDIA, author3@email.com Abstract: We need water to sustain life and thrive. Water flourishes the cities and civilizations across the world. Without safe and adequate supplies, our communities simply cannot bloom. Less than 1 % of all the water available on the earth are fresh that we can actually utilize. We use water for purposes like drinking, cleaning, transportation, industrial activities, agricultural practices and in various other tasks. A Country like India, which has a shape of the peninsula and it is surrounded by an abundance of water has 1121 BCM Average Estimated Utilizable Water. Though estimates vary, each person uses about 80-100 gallons of water per day. The Government at various levels is trying to provide safe drinking water to maximum households. Though safe drinking water is not completely safe and there are a number of households which even do not have access to safe drinking water and that is why people have to fetch water from untreated sites and this lead to water borne diseases. In India, every year million of cases registered due to water borne diseases and over thousands of deaths occurred. So, water must be accessible and carefully treated in order to make it safe for drinking and other uses. It is the responsibility of all the citizens to be aware of the importance of clean water and help to preserve it. Keywords: Water Accessibility, BCM, Contamination, Diseases, Sustainability. 1. Introduction Water storage is a term which is used to locate where water is stored for later utilization. These ranges of natural water stores, such as soil, water, ground water aquifers and natural wetlands to small artificial tanks, ponds and reservoirs behind major dams, etc. In India, average annual water resources potential is 1869 BCM and estimated utilizable water (EUW) is 1121 BCM, out of which surface water is 690 BCM and ground water is 431 BCM. As per the tentative assessment carried out in the CWC, live storage capacity of the completed dams in the country is 253.388 BCM and live storage capacity of dams under construction and under consideration for construction by the respective state governments are 50.959 BCM and 109.673 BCM respectively, while at the time of Independence the live storage capacity in the country was 15.6 BCM (Status of water quality in India 2011; CPCB). Water and related statistics report by water planning and project wing, central water commission, December 2013 discussed about the utilization of water resources, social and environmental aspects of water resources development activities as well as data on flood damages and flood protection works. Census of India 2011 Analytical Report on Houses, Household Amenities and Assets Madhya Pradesh Series 24 Chapter 5 Drinking water sources and availability studied about the proximity of drinking water sources to households which is categorized into three, which is; within the premises, near the premises and away from the premises. The another aspect is the major source of drinking water consumed by the households which could incorporate tap water, wells, hand pumps, other sources, etc. John Archer, in his study “The water you drink, how safe is it?” has estimated 60,000 tonnes of fifty different chemicals being intentionally added annually in the water. Indira Khurana and Romit Sen in their study “Drinking water quality in rural India: Issues and approaches”, have estimated that annually around 37.7 million Indians are affected by waterborne diseases; 1.5 million children died due to diarrhea and each year 73 million working days are lost due to waterborne disease. According to them, the consequential economic burden is approximate at $600 million a year. 2. Study Area India is a country located in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country with 1,210,193,422 residents reported in the 2011 census report and in 2017 it is estimated 1,310,069,000 and it is the most populous democracy in the world. It is the seventh-largest country by area which is bounded by the Bay of Bengal on the south east and the Indian Ocean on the south, and the Arabian Sea on the southwest. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. 3. Data Sources And Methodology The present study is entirely based on secondary sources of data that have been collected from various national and international organizations and both government and non- government, such as from Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)Indiastat.com.Ministry of Health and Family Welfare , WaterAid NGO and others. The techniques used for making graphs and tables is prepared with the help of Microsoft excel and Microsoft word software respectively. Graduated symbols and Graduated colour are applied to create maps with the help of software named as "ArcMap 10.3. 4. Objectives