The demand for water is increasing substantially day by day due to increasing population, growing urbanization and rapid industrialization
along with the need for raising agricultural productivity. On the other side, the supply of water is either constant or decreasing due to global
warming. Therefore, there is an urgent need to utilize the valuable (fresh) water resources efficient and judiciously, and more and more
water saving techniques be used to save water for future. For this purpose, the concept of State water budgeting is propagated by the
National Water Mission (NWM) of Government of India as an efficient tool, primarily to find out whether the State is water surplus or water
deficit. Such a budgeting requires preparation of plans for each of the components of supply, demand and quality. For this, NWM provided a
model template for collection of data for each State of the country under State Specific Action Plan (SSAP). The experience in its
implementation is that the template is too comprehensive and cumbersome to apply in field conveniently, and therefore, need to be simplified.
This study revisits these templates for possible simplification.