New Delhi: NITI Aayog released a report on Wednesday titled “Water Budgeting in Aspirational Blocks,” marking a significant effort to take forward local water budgeting for enhancing water security.

The water budgeting exercise uses a web-based platform, Varuni, to enhance the block-level water security planning and undertake integrated water management. It provides a structured approach for estimating water demand across key sectors: human, livestock, agriculture, and industry, while accounting for supplies from multiple sources such as runoff, surface water, groundwater, and water transfers.

The report highlights the need for adopting customised strategies across 18 Aspirational Blocks with different endowments of water availability. These blocks, spread across 8 agro-climatic zones of

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