Abstract

Water is considered to be one of the nature’s precious gifts to mankind and everyone present on this planet (animal, plant and other microorganisms). Water is the unique source of life, without which we cannot imagine the life here. Life on other planets is not possible just because of the absence of water. Due to impact of rising population, changing of climate and rapid urbanization India`s natural resources are becoming acute. To meet the water demand of 1.3 Billion people and its future generation and for sustainable development water is becoming a rarest commodity soon if the general public is not educated for significance of storing, recycling and reusing multiple times. Water conservation need of the present-day to overcome the global impacts of water scarcity is highly necessary. Water conservation measures are the first-line option for the control and management of subsurface drainage water. This article focuses on some of the prominent and typical Traditional Methods of Water Conservation and Management Techniques prevailing across the country, in order to help in bringing the strategic change towards revival of them such that sustainable solutions are worked out without abolishing what has been done till date. The traditional Indian methods of Water Conservation and Management are promising even in the present era of technology, can be achieved through strict water management, which broadly includes advanced scientific application methods in all areas of water utilization, plugging wastage and losses, reducing pollution and creating awareness among people about scarcity of water and the need to conserve.