Parts of Maharashtra are getting water supply only once a week, Mr Pawar said.
Ajit Pawar resigned partly to show independence from his uncle, the ageing NCP strongman, Sharad Pawar.
Mr Pawar told reporters that the monsoon has been delayed, leading to a 31% "deficit" in rains so far.
He is the nephew of Sharad Pawar, a powerful minister in the federal government, and the leader of the NCP.
He must also deal with a shifty coalition partner in the state assembly, the NCP, run by the Pawar family.
India's monsoon has been deficient so far, but more rains are expected from next week, farm minister Sharad Pawar has said.
Mr Pawar is from the regional Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which is in power in Maharashtra in alliance with the Congress party.
Sharad Pawar, a former BCCI president, is the head of the NCP.
Later, Mr Pawar apologised for "hurting sentiments of people with his comment".
Mr Pawar allayed fears of a drought and said that the situation is not "as serious as it is being made out to be".
Separately, Mr. Pawar said a proposal that the government ease its tight control over the sugar sector has yet to be submitted to the cabinet.
"It seemed like everybody in the Bronx was out that night, " she said in an interview monitored by Vik Pawar, her attorney in her federal lawsuit.
But on Monday, Indian Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, asked the Finance Ministry to remove the export ban because there was excess, exportable sugar lying around.
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Ujjwala Pawar, the public prosecutor, told the BBC's Zubair Ahmed in Mumbai that the death penalty was given as Mane's crime fell into the "rarest of rare" category.
The Deputy Chief Minister of India's Maharashtra state Ajit Pawar has apologised for ridiculing a farmer who has been on a 55-day-long protest fast demanding water for his farm.
Mr Pawar, the deputy who resigned, denies all accusations.
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