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India's first-ever census of water bodies across the Nation Report Released.

The census provides a comprehensive inventory of India's water resources, including natural and man-made water bodies like ponds, tanks, lakes, etc

By Jal Shakti Ministry
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⭕️Launched under the centrally sponsored scheme, “Irrigation Census

➡️Covered water bodies located in rural as well as urban areas that are in-use or not in-use

❇️All type of uses of water bodies like irrigation, industry, pisciculture, domestic/ drinking, recreation, religious, etc

Key Highlights of Report 👇⬇️

✅️24,24,540 water bodies have been enumerated in the country, out of which 97.1% (23,55,055) are in rural areas and only 2.9% (69,485) are in urban areas

‼️So Rural >>Urban ‼️
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✅️Top 5 states with water bodies
West Bengal>Uttar Pradesh> Andhra Pradesh> Odisha> Assam

✅️Together, they Constituent 63% of total water bodies in country
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✅️Top 5 states with Urban water bodies
West Bengal>Tamil Nadu>Kerala> Uttar Pradesh>Tripura

✅️Top 5 states with Rural water bodies
West Bengal>Uttar Pradesh> Andhra Pradesh>Odisha> Assam
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🔴In terms of types of water bodies
Ponds(59.5%)>tanks (15.7%) > reservoirs (12.1%)>Water conservation schemes/percolation tanks/check dams (9.3%)>lakes (0.9%)>others (2.5%).
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🔴Interms of Ownership
Private ownership(55.2%)>>Public ownership( 44.8%)

➡️In Public ownership maximum lies with Panchayat followed by State Irrigation/WRD

➡️In terms of private ownership

✴️Individual owner/farmer >>Group of individuals >>other private bodies
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✅️Top 5 States in the private owned water bodies are
West Bengal>Assam>Andhra
Pradesh>Odisha >Jharkhand

✅️Out of all 'in use' water bodies, major water bodies are reported to be used in pisciculture followed by Irrigation.

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✅️Top 5 States in pisciculture water use are
WestBengal>Assam>Odisha>Uttar Pradesh >Andhra Pradesh

✅️Top 05 States in irrigation water used are

Jharkhand>Andhra Pradesh >Telangana>West Bengal>Gujarat.

✅️Man made water bodies(78%) >>>natural water bodies(22%)

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U can refer govt original doc for more data. The above is brief highlights of census impt for our exams point of view #UPSCPrelims2023

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