Abstract

Abstract: Loni Mawalais a watershed located at distance of 65 km from Ahmednagar. It lies betweenNorth latitude 19°0’30’’ and East longitude 74°12’30’’. The aim of work is toevaluate and examine various indices related to watershed in order to proposedwater conservation structure to solve problem related to water scarcity. Itwill prevent  the Loni Mawala villagefrom the continuous water supply by tankers. Geographic information system(GIS) an most important tool for watershed planning and management tasks. withthe help of GIS,  drainagecharacteristics, features of topography, hydraulic characteristic, landformdetails  can be easily identified. In theLoni Mawala watershed some measures have been already  adopted for conservation and recharge ofground water, but this measures do not work at full pledge due to lack of maintainaceof structures . If planning and designing watershed is done using recenttechnologies integrated with GIS and remote sensing , it will significantly reduceproblem of water scarcity in area.

KEYWORDS: Engineering measures, Watershedmanagement techniques, ground water storage, Geographic information system.