Development Of Water Resources In India

Author : Vikas Garg,Vijay P. Singh,Vijay Raj
Publisher : Springer
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319551258

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Development of Water Resources in India by Vikas Garg,Vijay P. Singh,Vijay Raj Pdf

This proceedings volume, with more than 30 chapters, is based on the presentations given at the National Conference on Water Resources and Hydropower (WRHP-2016) and represents the state-of-the-art in water resources in India. It includes experimental investigations, field studies, theoretical developments, numerical methods, as well as engineering achievements in water resources. The contributions are organised under four main topics: • Water Resources and Management: covers the issues related to water resources planning and management, water conservation, flood mitigation, policies and governance, conflict over rivers and planning of groundwater evolution, Assessment of Sedimentation, Surface water quality, Rainfall assessment, • Climate Change and Global Warming: includes chapters on the impact of climate on water resources and groundwater, hydrological impacts of climate change, Ground Water Contaminants, Assessment of Evaporation and evapotranspiration effects on global warming • Hydraulic Structures: presents contributions on fluvial hydraulics,flow through Weirs, Open Channel flow, river flood control, scour and erosion, dam and dowstream block failures and protection, Losses in pipes By combining these topics, the book provides a valuable resource for practitioners and researchers, including field engineers, academicians, planners, health specialists, disaster managers, decision makers and policy makers engaged in various aspects of water resources and hydropower. The WRHP-2016 was organised in association with the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttrakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited and the Indian Society for Hydraulics, Pune and was held in University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India from June 17-18, 2016.

Author : John Briscoe,R. P. S. Malik
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123332897

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Handbook of Water Resources in India by John Briscoe,R. P. S. Malik Pdf

This handbook focuses on major water policy issues in India, the challenges and the critical measures that need to be addressed. It traces the development of policies in water and their management and has contributions by India's leading water specialists.

Author : Sharad K. Jain,Pushpendra K. Agarwal,Vijay P. Singh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1277 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402051807

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Hydrology and Water Resources of India by Sharad K. Jain,Pushpendra K. Agarwal,Vijay P. Singh Pdf

India is endowed with varied topographical features, such as high mountains, extensive plateaus, and wide plains traversed by mighty rivers. Divided into four sections this book provides a comprehensive overview of water resources of India. A detailed treatment of all major river basins is provided. This is followed by a discussion on major uses of water in India. Finally, the closing chapters discuss views on water management policy for India.

Author : M. Dinesh Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000517484

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Politics and Policies for Water Resources Management in India by M. Dinesh Kumar Pdf

This comprehensive volume explores the interface between politics and policy making in the water management sector of India. The authors discuss the nature of the political discourse on water management in India, and what characterizes this discourse. They also explore how this discourse has influenced the process of framing water related policies in India, particularly through the ‘academics-bureaucrat-politician’ nexus and the growing influence of the civil society groups on policy makers, which are the defining feature of this process, and which have produced certain policy outcomes that are not supported by sufficient scientific evidence. The book reveals that the social and management sciences, despite being increasingly relevant in contemporary water management, are unable to impress upon traditional, engineer-dominated water administration to seek solutions to complex water problems owing to a lack of interdisciplinary perspective in their research. The authors also examine the current deadlock in undertaking sectoral reforms due to existing water policies not being honoured. This collection includes several research studies which suggest legal, institutional policy alternatives for addressing the problems in areas such as irrigation, rural and urban water supply, flood control and adaptation to climate variability and change. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : Vandana Asthana,A. C. Shukla
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441118226

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Water Security in India by Vandana Asthana,A. C. Shukla Pdf

Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.

Author : P. C. Bansil
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : 8180690970

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Water Management in India by P. C. Bansil Pdf

Author : Vishal Narain,Annasamy Narayanamoorthy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319251844

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Indian Water Policy at the Crossroads: Resources, Technology and Reforms by Vishal Narain,Annasamy Narayanamoorthy Pdf

This book reviews and analyzes emerging challenges in water policy, governance and institutions in India. Recent times have seen the contours of water policy shaped by new discourses and narratives; there has been a pluralization of the state and a changing balance of power among the actors who influence the formulation of water policy. Discourses on gender mainstreaming and Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) are influential, though they have often remained rhetorical and difficult to put into practice. Debate over property rights reform and inter-linking of rivers has been polarized. At the same time, there has been a rising disenchantment with policy initiatives in participatory irrigation management, cleaning up of water bodies and pollution control. Fast depletion of groundwater resources and the importance of adopting new irrigation methods are getting increased focus in the recent policy dialogue. The contributors review current debate on these and other subjects shaping the governance of water resources, and take stock of new policy developments. The book examines the experience of policy implementation, and shows where important weaknesses still lie. The authors present a roadmap for the future, and discuss the potential of alternative approaches for tackling emerging challenges. A case is made for greater emphasis on a discursive analysis of water policy, to examine underlying policy processes. The contributors observe that the ongoing democratization of water governance, coupled with the multiplication of stresses on water, will create a more visible demand for platforms for negotiation, conflict resolution and dialogue across different categories of users and uses. Finally, the authors propose that future research should challenge implicit biases in water resources planning and address imbalances in the allocation of water from the perspectives of both equity and sustainability.

Author : Sharad K. Jain,Pushpendra K. Agarwal,Vijay P. Singh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 940241309X

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Hydrology and Water Resources of India by Sharad K. Jain,Pushpendra K. Agarwal,Vijay P. Singh Pdf

India is endowed with varied topographical features, such as high mountains, extensive plateaus, and wide plains traversed by mighty rivers. Divided into four sections this book provides a comprehensive overview of water resources of India. A detailed treatment of all major river basins is provided. This is followed by a discussion on major uses of water in India. Finally, the closing chapters discuss views on water management policy for India.

Author : Mahesh Chandra Chaturvedi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439874677

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India's Waters by Mahesh Chandra Chaturvedi Pdf

India's Waters: Advances in Development and Management is a critical study of the development and management of India's waters. Its central theme is that the current methods in use are an extension of the colonial-era system, which, despite vast growth, has remained essentially the same in terms of developmental concepts, technological activities,

Author : Dwarika N. Dhungel,Santa B. Pun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402084034

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The Nepal-India Water Relationship: Challenges by Dwarika N. Dhungel,Santa B. Pun Pdf

Since its establishment as a policy research institute in 1990, the Institute for In- grated Development Studies (IIDS) has been engaged in promoting public awa- ness and understanding of issues of national importance by undertaking studies and research on contemporary themes. It has been disseminating findings of its studies to policymakers in the public and private sectors and ultimately to the public at large. Water resources is one of the areas of strong public interest in Nepal. It is cons- ered a potent engine of economic growth. Its optimal use is dependent on, among other things, the cooperation among the riparian countries, especially India and Bangladesh. Water resources development is one of the subjects in which the Ins- tute has been engaged since its beginning by undertaking studies through national professionals and joint studies on the water resources of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna river basins with policy research institutes from India and Bangladesh. In order to help policymakers to develop long-term perspectives of the need for cooperation for optimal use of water available in the tributaries of the Ganges, the Institute was involved in a major track-two exercise for over five years during the 1990s. The Institute has been undertaking a series of exercises in the form of p- lication and dissemination of study findings in the field since the early 1990‘s. In that series, this book is the latest one and is published in collaboration with Springer Science + Business Media BV, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Author : Koichi Fujita,Tsukasa Mizushima
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000177435

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Sustainable Development in India by Koichi Fujita,Tsukasa Mizushima Pdf

This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India’s economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. Part 1 focuses on the historical development of agriculture and social change in India, with special reference to the mode of responses and adaptations in social systems against the inherent low and erratic rainfall and resulting water stress in India during the pre-colonial period. Additionally, it investigates how colonial development destroyed social systems and discusses future development prospects. Part 2 discusses contemporary issues of agriculture and social change in India. A comprehensive examination of various important issues related to South Asian agricultural development in the past and in the present, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers of Asian development, sustainable development, environmental policy, South Asian Studies and Development Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Sughosh Madhav,Pardeep Singh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119709701

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Groundwater Geochemistry by Sughosh Madhav,Pardeep Singh Pdf

This book contains both practical and theoretical aspects of groundwater resources relating to geochemistry. Focusing on recent research in groundwater resources, this book helps readers to understand the hydrogeochemistry of groundwater resources. Dealing primarily with the sources of ions in groundwater, the book describes geogenic and anthropogenic input of ions into water. Different organic, inorganic and emerging contamination and salinity problems are described, along with pollution-related issues affecting groundwater. New trends in groundwater contamination remediation measures are included, which will be particularly useful to researchers working in the field of water conservation. The book also contains diverse groundwater modelling examples, enabling a better understanding of water-related issues and their management. Groundwater Geochemistry: Pollution and Remediation offers the reader: An understanding of the quantitative and qualitative challenges of groundwater resources An introduction to the environmental geochemistry of groundwater resources A survey of groundwater pollution-related issues Recent trends in groundwater conservation and remediation Mathematical and statistical modeling related to groundwater resources Students, lecturers and researchers working in the fields of hydrogeochemistry, water pollution and groundwater will find Groundwater Geochemistry an essential companion.

Author : Girish Chadha,Ashwin B. Pandya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811614729

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Water Governance and Management in India by Girish Chadha,Ashwin B. Pandya Pdf

This book, the second volume in the series, continues to raise contextual issues and presents perspectives regarding multifaceted challenges in management and governance of water in India. This volume attempts to broad base and expand the dialogue started in the first volume and would touch upon issues that need immediate discussion but have been left unattended like politics and management of groundwater, efficient utilization of water in agriculture (irrigation) and improving water use efficiency and building resilience. As in the first volume, this book presents a set of suggestions and recommendations in each chapter that can help frame policy guidelines in the country.

Author : A. Vaidyanathan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050476962

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Water Resource Management by A. Vaidyanathan Pdf

This collection of essays seeks to provide a comprehensive, holistic view of the problem of water resource management, highlighting its technical complexity and the importance of devising appropriate institutional arrangements in combination with more imaginative technology for providing irrigation facilities.

Author : Shri Krishan,S. Manjula
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : 8123016670

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A Brief History of Water Resources in India by Shri Krishan,S. Manjula Pdf