Field experiments were conducted during 2015 & 2016 at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani, SKUAST-Kashmir, India. Our objective was to measure the impact of alternative water management practices and varying N levels on water productivity, physiology, growth and yield of rice. Treatments comprised of three irrigation regimes; Submerged conditions (I1); Irrigation at 3 days after disappearance of ponded water (I2); Irrigation at 6 days after the disappearance of ponded water (I3) in main plots and four nitrogen doses viz., 0 kg/ha (N0); 80 kg/ha (N1); 100 kg/ha (N2); 120/kg ha (N3) in subplots. | Moderate drying and higher N increases the yield and water use efficiency of rice established through system of rice intensification SRI method