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Book SynopsisWater is the elixir of life and is crucial for sustainable development. Earlier, it was considered to be a limitless or at least a fully renewable natural resource. During the past 20 years, however, there has been tremendous pressure on this precious natural resource mainly due to rapid urbanization, industrialization and the increase in the human population. Together, these have resulted in increasing demand for irrigation, industrial, and household purposes to meet supply-chain requirements. Keeping in mind the scarcity of available water resources in the near future and its impending threats, it has become imperative on the part of scientists in hydrology and allied disciplines such as geography, landscape planning, sustainability science etc. Regional planners and supply chain management experts also must be involved in studying the spatial and temporal nature of the growing demand for water and the future availability for its judicial use and sustainable management.
A primary intent of the book is to provide comprehensive scientific knowledge base on water resource management and sustainability. It covers geo-engineering and scientific problems, case studies, and sustainable solutions in the water resources management domain. Additionally and of equal importance, the chapters of the book provide in-depth coverage on water resource vulnerability, water quality, wastewater treatment, application of remote sensing and geographical information systems hydrological modeling and harvesting, climate variability and runoff, sediment discharge and irrigation planning, community participation in water governance, internet of things and machine learning applications for sustainable water resources management.
This practical, state-of-the-art reference book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, scientists, policymakers, spatio-temporal designers of water resource systems, various stake holders interested in hydro-climatology and sustainable water resources management.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Water Resources, Livelihood Vulnerability and Management in Rural Desert Communities of Jaisalmer, India
Pankaj Kumar, Shreya Ojha, Gaurav Kant Nigam, Anju Singh, Manish Kumar Sinha
Chapter 2 Mining Related PCB in Wetland Sediments of the River Lippe (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Sarah Ohlemacher, Claudia Post, Klaus Baier
Chapter 3 Wastewater Treatment Plants Advantage to Combat Climate Change and Help Sustainable Water Management
Kapilkumar Nivrutti Ingle, Mulugeta Chanie Fenta, Koichi Harada, Akash Sopan Ingle, Atsushi Ueda
Chapter 4 Rethinking Community Water Governance: What Shapes Local Level Decision Making? A Case of Selected Communities in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region, Ghana
Kofi Adu-Boahen, Ishmael Yaw Dadson, Faustina Ankomah, Kyeremeh Sender
Chapter 5 Impact of Evaporation Losses from on-farm Reservoirs on the Economics of the Farming System
Aniket Deo, Subhankar Karmakar, Amit Arora
Chapter 6 Estimating Sediment Rate through Stage-Discharge Rating Curve for Two Mountain Streams in Sikkim, India
Sonu Kumar, Santosh Rangrao Yadav, Triambak Baghel
Chapter 7 Relative Contribution of Climate Variables on Long-term Runoff using Budyko Framwork
Uttam Puri Goswami, Manish Kumar Goyal
Chapter 8 Irrigation Planning with Fuzzy Parametric Programming Approach
J. B. Gurav, R. U. Kamodkar, D. G. Regulwar
Chapter 9 Application of High Resolution Hydrological & Hydraulic Models for Sustainable Water Resources Management
Sangameswaran Shyamprasad
Chapter 10 Development of Three-Dimensional Mathematical Groundwater Flow Model of Raipur City Area, Chhattisgarh, India
Suvendu Sahu, D. C. Jhariya
Chapter 11 Flood Modeling Using HEC-RAS for Purna River, Navsari District, Gujarat, India
Darshan J. Mehta, Yennam Varun Kumar
Chapter 12 Hydrological Parameter Estimation for Water Balance Studies Using SWAT Model
Sushmita Gouraha, Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Chapter 13 Groundwater Potential Mapping using Maximum Entropy
Arnold R. Salvacion
Chapter 14 Application of remote sensing and GIS in floodwater harvesting for groundwater development in the upper delta of Cauvery River Basin, Southern India
Kongeswaran Thangaraj, Sivakumar Karthikeyan
Chapter 15 Strategic evaluation of multi-objective water quality monitoring network using GIS-AHP model in a large River system
Preeti Rajput, Manish Kumar Sinha, Gaurav Kant Nigam
Chapter 16 Determination of Root Causes for Drying of Kanari River System by Integration of Multi-temporal Land Use Land Cover mapping in GIS Environment
Trivedi Ayushi, Awasthi Manoj Kumar, Singh Malay
Chapter 17 Impacts of Climate Variability on Urban Rainfall Extremes Using Statistical Analysis of Climatic Variables for Change Detection and Trend Analysis
Manish Kumar Sinha, Klaus Baier, Rafig Azzam, M K Verma, Sunil Kumar
Chapter 18 An Analysis of Textural Characteristics and Depositional Environment of Sediments In The Gumti River, Tripura, India
Istak Ahmed, Nibedita Das, Jatan Debnath
Chapter 19 Morphometric Analysis and Geohydrological Inference of Bhilangna Drainage Basin, Uttarakhand (India) using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques
Naresh Kumar Verma, Sourav Bhadwal, Manish Kumar, Pankaj Kumar
Chapter 20 Geospatial Analysis of Kosi River Course From 1998 To 2018
Netrananda Sahu, Rajan Kumar, Martand Mani Mishra
Chapter 21 Internet of Things and Machine Learning Application for a Remotely Operated Wetland Siphon System during Hurricanes
Vivek Verma, Krishna Sai Vutukuru, Sai Srinivas Divvela, Surya Srikar Sirigineedi
Chapter 22 AHP based Site Suitability Analysis for Water Harvesting Structure Using geospatial technique
Chandra Shekhar Dwivedi, Raghib Raza, Arvind Chandra Pandey, and D. C. Jhariya
Chapter 23 Attaining Optimal Sustainability for Urban Wastewater Management Using Open-source tools like QGIS, EPANET, and WATERNETGEN
Devang Shah, Dilip Shete
