The Tarai belt of Kumaun Himalaya contains many numbers of freshwater bodies like Ponds, rivers, rice crop fields and sagars. A maximum of these water bodies are covered by aquatic vegetation which by vegetative propagation increases in numbers and becomes useless. A large number of aquatic or semiaquatic plants have the potential for commercialization as food plants and medicinal aspects due to their nutritional and phytochemical value but lack of knowledge hinders exploitation of their potential. The present study is to analyze the economic importance of hydrophytes with special reference to their medicinal and edible aspects in the freshwater bodies of the U.S. Nagar district. The edible and medicinal aspects of such aquatic weeds make people aware of the proper utilization of these aquatic weeds.