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Drought has been consistently affecting many parts of India. Maharashtra is one of the states amongst it. Specifically, the Marathwada region has been witnessing severe droughts from the last ten years and is getting worse year after year. To tackle this situation, we need efficient water resource allocation, planning and management. Overcoming the water-related issues would be easy if we have a good understanding of the existing groundwater availability. We present a participatory approach to report water availability and depth levels of wells and borewells. Having a record of this data will not only allow us to monitor but also have a better understanding, planning and control over groundwater extraction and its use. We propose an open source- based spatial data infrastructure, which will then be used to calculate the demand and supply of the water. We will also be doing a simulation of various effects of the policies on water availability. Time series analysis will help us to do the future prediction of water availability.