Drowning is a multispectral issue and is an important public health issue with major impacts on children and youth. Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death for children aged 1-14years and the fifth leading cause for people of all ages. The major tragedies of drowning occurs due to Natural disasters like cyclones and floods, the Hindus religious events like holy dips in pushkharalu, in canals of punyakshetralu, during religious ritual celebrating the birth of the elephant headed Hindu deity Ganesha and Economic events like tourism, transport. Beside all these, some persons committed suicide by drowning, as it is one of the painless and easy way of death, some murderers dispose off the dead bodies of their victims in the rivers, seas and well to simulate death due to drowning and sometimes unwanted bodies are thrown into water. In our Indian set up the time required to complete the inquest formalities and transport of the body to the mortuary is enough to cause the decomposition advanced and mask most of the post mortem evidence of cause of death. In advanced decomposed and skeletonized bodies, the only method of identifying a classical antemortem drowning is estimation of diatoms from the bone marrow and comparing them with the diatoms available in water and identification of dead body by DNA analysis. Drowning is preventable. Proven strategies implemented at household, community and national level range from teaching basic swim skills and installing barriers that control exposure to water hazards, to providing safe spaces for children such as crèches and learning about safe rescue, tailored to individual settings and risk groups