Two experiments were conducted to evaluate seventeen rice genotypes behavior under normal and water deficit conditions during the 2019 and 2020 rice growing seasons to screen and identify the genotypes and determine the remarkable criteria for selection. The study revealed that environmental conditions, genotypes, and their interaction (GEI) mean squares were found to be highly significant for all physiological and morphological characters studied. Whereas, the genotypes that show high mean values for physiological and morphological characters are tolerant to water shortages. The grain yield plant-1 was investigated under normal and drought conditions, and it was positively significant associated with soluble sugar, peroxidase activity, the number of panicles plant-1, and 100-grain weight under drought conditions. On the other hand, a significant negative correlation was observed with soluble sugar, catalase activity, peroxidase activity, stomatal conductance, Na content, and sterility percentage under both normal and drought conditions, respectively.