Introduction India, without a doubt, suffers greatly from the unequal distribution of water resources. Water availability varies significantly between the deserts of the west and the hills of the north. However, the real water management challenge in India is that the country's climate is characterised by monsoons. Half of the annual precipitation occurs over a 15-day period. Over 90% of river run-off occurs during the four monsoon months. This results in India being both wat

Introduction Although Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton, a British irrigation engineer, proposed interconnecting India's rivers in 1858, the concept of interconnecting Indian rivers was revitalized just a few decades ago by M. Visveswarayya, K. L. Rao, and D. J. Dastur. The Indian Supreme Court directed the government to finish the river interconnection project within the next 12–15 years in 2002. The Government of India created a Task Force in response to this order, and scientists,