Conference Proceedings: Recent submissions

  • 60-Modelling Effects of Rural Land Management on Flood Risk. 
    Wheater, H. S.; McIntyre, N.; Jackson, B. M. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Around the world, rural land use and land management are changing. Effects are often subtle, and not possible to detect from catchment-scale data analysis. There is a need for new methodologies that can represent the local ...
  • 61-Continuous Simulation Model for Hydrologic Forecasting Based on Modified SCS-CN Concept. 
    Geetha, K.; Eldho, T. I.; Rastogi, A. K.; Mishra, S. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    A new lumped conceptual model based on the modified Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) concept has been proposed in this paper for long-term hydrologic simulation and it has been tested using the data of three ...
  • 62-Catchment Classification and Predictions in Ungauged Basins. 
    Wagener, Thorsten (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Current hydrologic predictions are notoriously unreliable if we lack sufficient observations of the hydrologic variable of interest (most often strearnflow). In this paper we show how catchment classification can contribute ...
  • 63-Challenges in Hydrological Modelling—Simplicity vs. Complexity. 
    Jayawardena, A. W. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)
    Hydrological modeling is a challenging task nowadays because of the multi-faceted nature of the problem and the various choices available. There has been a proliferation of models and modeling techniques in the past few ...
  • Author Index 
    National Institute of Hydrology (National Institute of Hydrology, 2009)
  • Contents 
    Romani, Saleem; Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Kaushik, Y. B. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
  • Prelude 
    Romani, Saleem; Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Kaushik, Y. B. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
  • A Brief Report on the Papers 
    Romani, Saleem; Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Kaushik, Y. B. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
  • Acknowledgement 
    Romani, Saleem; Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Kaushik, Y. B. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
  • 1-Groundwater Manahement-Emerging Challenges. 
    Romani, Saleem (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Ground water is poorly understood but most sought after resource for meeting the ever-growing demands of different user groups. The stress on groundwater systems is reflected in steep decline of water levels and sharp ...
  • 2-Groundwater Resources of India -Towards a Framework for Practical Management and Effective Administration 
    Foster, Stephen; Garduno, Hector (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    This paper is intended as a contribution to the on-going discussion on the development of a framework for appropriate and effective groundwater resources management taking account of the main groundwater settings occurring ...
  • 3-Groundwater Management in the State of Punjab. 
    Kaushal, M. P.; Jain, A. K. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Groundwater management strategy was considered as shifting the cropping pattern in such a way so as to reduce the area under the crop having high water requirements thus helping to reduce the demand for irrigation water. ...
  • 4-Challenges of Groundwater Management in Hard Rock Terrain - Acase Study from Tamil Nadu, India 
    Nandakumaran, P. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The yield characteristics of shallow aquifers in hard consolidated rocks, which underlie a major part of India and form important aquifer systems, are severely limited by their considerable heterogeneity and extremely low ...
  • 5-Optimal Groundwater Pumping from Palla Well fields to Augment Drinking Water Supply to Delhi 
    Rao, S. V. N.; Kumar, Sudhir; Shekhar, Shashank; Sinha, S. K. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    A real-life problem involving pumping of groundwater from a series of ninety existing wells along river Yamuna floodplain, northwest of Delhi (India) underlain with geologically occurring saline water is examined within a ...
  • 6-Origin and Recharge Zones of Ground Water in a Himalayan Catchment - An Isotopic Approach 
    Rai, S. P.; Kumar, Bhishm; Jacob, Noble; Navada, S. V.; Verma, S. K.; Garg, P. K.; Rawat, Y. S. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Generally ground water emerges out in the form of natural springs as an important source of drinking water in the mountainous regions. An attempt has been made to study the origin and natural recharge zones of ground water ...
  • 7-Emerging Challenges in Groundwater Resource Management before Newly Created State with Special Reference to Chhattisgarh. 
    Mukherjee, Arunanghshu; Tewari, Dinesh (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The newly formed developing states like Chhattisgarh, which is predominantly agriculture based, has unique problems of groundwater resource development and management, unlike other developed states of the country due to ...
  • 8-Design of Sustainable Water Supply for Hindalco-Muri Works in Subarnarekha Riverbed Aquifer, Ranchi District, Jharkhand 
    Rao, V. V. S. Gurunadha; Prakash, B. A.; Krupanidhi, K. V. J. R.; Kumar, K. Mahesh; Ramesh, M.; Kumar, N. Pavan; Kumar, K. Krishna (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Hindalco Industries Ltd Muri works Alumina plant requires water of about 500 m3/hr after expansion at Muri, Ranchi District, Jharkhand. No deep-seated fractures could be seen in the area. Detailed groundwater exploration ...
  • 9-Implications of Submersible Pumps in Declining Water Table Areas of Trans Indo-Gangetic Plains. 
    Kaledhonkar, M. J.; Gupta, S. K.; Saxena, C. K.; Sharma, D. P. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Declining water table has emerged as the most serious challenge to sustainability of irrigated agriculture in many states of India. In the trans Indo-Gangetic plains comprising Punjab and Haryana, water table in few blocks ...
  • 10-Artificial Groundwater Recharge Planning in Northern Uttar Pradesh Using Remote Sensing and GIS 
    Roy, Moumita; Sharma, H. C.; Kumar, Ambrish (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The over-exploitation of ground water has become an acute problem in the agriculturally important states e.g. Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Over-exploitation of ground water ...
  • 11-Groundwater Scenario under Changing Climate - Rajasthan. 
    Goyal, R. K. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    One of the primary threats from climatic changes is because of increase in evaporative losses and water demands caused by higher temperature. The increase in water demand due to increase in evaporative losses will have ...