## 5 Conclusions  
The WA+ is a comprehensive tool that integrates different fields of hydrology, water and environmental management, water allocations, reporting and communication, and policy decisions. It has limitations, as it can not replace hydrological models in their functions to provide detailed information on flow component of a basin. The assumption in the WA+ framework is that it considers the basin, tributaries, and aquifer a bulk single system. The satellite data parameters have uncertainity and errors in measuring the indirect hydrological processes. Hence, the water accounting in a BRB was performed using earth observation datasets and the WA+ framework. Total water consumptions by different land use classes in the basin were calculated and summarized in sheet 2 of the WA+ framework. The CHIRPS and PERSIANN satellite-based precipitation products were statistically compared with the gridded IMD rainfall. The CHIRPS precipitation dataset was found close to the IMD. The MWU is the largest water management category in BRB, which occupies a 63.46% area of the basin. Irrigated crops-cereals are the largest land use class under MWU category, with a cover of 62.02% of the total basin area. Further, irrigated crops-cereals and rainfed-cereals account for 70.31% of the basin's total area. Hence, agriculture under managed activity is the main consumer of water and accounts maximum ET in the basin. The beneficial ETs from agriculture were only 24.41% (for the wet period) and 21.65% (for the dry period) of the total evapotranspiration for CHIRPS. Non-beneficial ET was higher than beneficial ET in the form of evaporation by soil. The seasonal water yield from CHIRPS showed greater than 150 mm/month during monsoons (July and August). The authors recommend that the promotion of maize, sorghum, and millet crop cultivation, in the place of water intensive crops, such as rice, sugarcane, and wheat cultivation, will substantially reduce water consumption, without affecting the cereals production in the basin. The outcomes of \begin{table}
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**Evaporation** & **For PERSIANN Precipitation** & **For CHIRPS Precipitation** & **Implication** \\ \hline Transportation fraction \(\left(\frac{T}{total ET}\right)\) \(\times\) 100 & 39.50\% & 31.10\% & Sufficient amount of transpiration being generated from rainfed and irrigated areas \\ Beneficial fraction \(\left(\frac{ET\,brellatial}{total ET}\right)\) \(\times\) 100 & 40.88\% & 33.07\% & Poor utilization of ET amounts \\ Agricultural ET fraction & 27.35\% & 21.65\% & Area dominated by agricultural activities \\ Irrigated ET fraction & 59.94\% & 59.45\% & Large proportion of ET being generated from irrigated areas \\ Rainfed ET Fraction & 8.29\% & 8.27\% & Considerable proportion of ET came from rainfed areas \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 6: Performance indicators based on satellite precipitation datasets for dry year in the Beta River basin. \begin{table}
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**Evaporation** & **For PERSIANN Precipitation** & **For CHIRPS Precipitation** & **Implication** \\ \hline Transportation fraction \(\left(\frac{T}{total ET}\right)\) \(\times\) 100 & 36.27\% & 36.27\% & Sufficient amount of transpiration being generated from rainfed and irrigated areas \\ Beneficial fraction \(\left(\frac{ET\,brellatial}{total ET}\right)\) \(\times\) 100 & 38.31\% & 37.97\% & Poor utilization of ET amounts \\ Agricultural ET fraction & 24.41\% & 24.41\% & Area dominated by agricultural activities \\ Irrigated ET fraction & 60.00\% & 60.00\% & Large proportion of ET came from irrigated areas \\ Rainfed ET Fraction & 8.14\% & 8.14\% & Considerable proportion of ET came from rainfed areas \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 5: Performance indicators based on satellite precipitation datasets for wet year in the Beta River basin.