Theme T46 · Water
Irrigation & water-use efficiency
5PYQs
1GS1
4GS3
2016–20245 distinct years
1asked 2024–26
What UPSC asks
UPSC asks about challenges in irrigation, water-use efficiency, micro-irrigation, storage, and turning floods into irrigation and navigation.
Prepare these
- Irrigation types and issues: inefficiency, silting, unequal access
- Micro-irrigation: drip, sprinkler, PMKSY 'Per Drop More Crop'
- Water storage and judicious use
Answer writing
- Use data on water-use efficiency where you can
Directive words in these PYQs: To what extent (1), Suggest (1), Describe (1).
Linked themes
Builds on: study these first
These come earlier in the roadmap. Questions in this theme use them.
On the map
Syllabus lines covered
- GS1-L11 — Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent); factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India)
- GS3-L4 — Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country, different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers
All 5 PYQs, newest first
- GS3202415 marks · 250 wordsGS3-AGR-01-M2024-Q13
- GS32021GS3-AGR-01-M2021-S01
How and to what extent would micro-irrigation help in solving India’s water crisis?
- GS32020GS3-AGR-01-M2020-S02
- GS12017GS1-GEO-05-M2017-S02
- GS32016GS3-AGR-01-M2016-S01