Conservation of environment becomes one of the basic necessities of human race due to rapid urbanisation, rapid industrialisation and population explosion.   Human beings interact with and transform the natural world through the use of technology.   Over the course of human history we have developed increasingly powerful technologies, with greater scope of   affecting the state of natural and human world.   Natural resources are being exploited from the available potential sources.   The need of water, the most indispensable and unique requirement of life, is   required for better living.   With the increase in population the per capita consumption has increased from a few litres in Stone Age to as much as 600 litres in developing countries today.   In drought-affected areas, tanks and reservoirs are repeatedly left unfilled, thereby causing acute scarcity of water and leaving millions of hectares of irrigated tracts without water .   Harnessing of un-utilised river flows is mainly carried out through dams and reservoirs.   The present study on water resource management incorporating spatial analysis tool is undertaken in Government College of Technology campus, Coimbatore.   This is an attempt made to improve the prevailing management strategies of a smaller community, which resembles any typical urban community so that proposed strategies could be replicated to any other urban community of any size.

Government College of Technology,
Coimbatore – 641 013,
Tamil Nadu, India
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