Weather and Precipitation in India

Currently, water is used in five major sectors: domestic (including drinking water), agriculture, industry, power generation and environmental conservation. As a result, sustainable access to safe water and improved sanitation has become an urgent issue in many countries of the world. We know that precipitation brings water to the earth’s surface and the occurrence of precipitation can be considered to be a process of weather systems. More detailed discussion on various weather systems that produce precipitation have been presented in the previous chapter. The theme of this chapter, therefore, is to provide an overview of weather systems and precipitation in the context of an ideal region to get a realistic picture of the status of water availability.