Water resources in India includes information on precipitation, surface and groundwater storage and hydropower potential. India experiences an average precipitation of per year, or about of rains annually or about of fresh water per person every year. India accounts for 18% of the world population and about 4% of the world's water resources. One of the solutions to solve the country's water woes is to create Indian Rivers Inter-link.c Some 80 percent of its area experiences rains of or more a year. However, this rain is not uniform in time or geography. Most of the rains occur during its monsoon seasons (June to September), with the north east and north receiving far more rains than India's west and south. Other than rains, the melting of snow over the Himalayas after winter season feeds the northern rivers to varying degrees. The southern rivers, however experience more flow variability over the year. For the Himalayan basin, this leads to flooding in some months and water scarcity in others. Despite extensive river system, safe clean drinking water as well as irrigation water supplies for sustainable agriculture are in shortage across India, in part because it has, as yet, harnessed a small fraction of its available and recoverable surface water resource. India harnessed (20 percent) of its water resources in 2010, part of which came from unsustainable use of groundwater. Of the water it withdrew from its rivers and groundwater wells, India dedicated about to irrigation, to municipal and drinking water applications and to industry.