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Do u have questions of Indian rivers and water resources.

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The major rivers of India are: Flowing into the Bay of Bengal: Brahmaputra, Ganges, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, etc. Flowing into the Arabian Sea: Indus, Narmada, Tapti, etc.

There are four major sources of surface water. These are rivers, lakes, ponds, and tanks. In the country, there are about 10,360 rivers and their tributaries longer than 1.6 km each. The mean annual flow in all the river basins in India is estimated to be 1,869 cubic km.

6 Water Resources Regions

6 Water Resources RegionsKhosla , in which entire country has been distinctly delineated into 6 Water Resources Regions (Watershed Atlas of India, AISLUS, 1990). The 6 Water Resources Regions has been further divided into 66 major river catchments.

Odisha had the largest combined area of water resources in India, with around 998 thousand hectares of water resources as of 2018. The coastal state largely depends on the southwest monsoons for its water resources along with its surface water and groundwater reserves.

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