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Climate change and it’s impact on cropping pattern: A case study of Tawa canal command, Madhya Pradesh, India

Mishra, P. K.; Khare, Deepak; Shukla, Rituraj; Mondal, Arun; Kundu, Sananda (Current Science Association, 2015)

Soil plays an important role in the ecosystem with regard to plant growth, soil biota functioning, reduction of greenhouse gases, modification of pollutants and maintenance of soil quality. The great importance of C ...

Effects of land use and land cover changes on water yield in GOI watershed of Narmada basin

Nayak, T. R.; Narulkar, S. M. (IWRS, 2011)

The land use changes have significant influence on the hydrological response from river basins. The runoff characteristics are usually altered due to reduction of initial abstraction that increases the runoff volume. ...

Spatio-Temporal Variation of Drought Characteristics in Bearma Basin of Bundelkhand Region in Madhya Pradesh

Sachan, Shikha; Thomas, T.; Singh, R. M.; Kumar, Pushpendra (The Indian Society of Dryland Agriculture, 2015)

Long-term drought forecasts can provide valuable information to help in mitigation of the consequences of drought. The study has been carried out for Bearma basin of Bundelkhand region in Madhya Pradesh which is regularly ...

Trend analysis of rainfall of Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh

Singh, Surjeet; Kumar, S. (Indian Association of Soil & Water Conservationists, 2016)

This paper aims to analyze the trends in historical rainfall of Sagar district using parametric and non-parametric approaches. The analysis is carried out using 45 years data (1960-2004) of four rain gauge stations located ...

Water balance of the Sonar Sub basin – A Case study

Singh, Surjeet; Kumar, C. P.; Sharma, Anupama; Vatsa, Rajan (Association of Hydrologists of India,, 2012)

Water balance indicates the total water budget of a basin during a particular year by quantifying all inputs and outputs. This helps in basin planning in many ways, whether to estimate the surface water availability or ...

Groundwater Resources Management through Flow Modeling in Lower Part of Bhagirathi - Jalangi Interfluve, Nadia, West Bengal

Kumar, Sudhir; Halder, S.; Singhal, D. C. (Geological Society of India, 2011)

Groundwater utilization in Nadia district, West Bengal has been subjected to rapid exploitation in the wake of increasing urbanization and production of agricultural commodities. It is, therefore, necessary to evaluate ...

Estimation of groundwater recharge in national capital teriitory, Delhi using groundwater modeling

Vishal, Vikrant; Kumar, Sudhir; Singhal, D. C. (IWRS, 2014)

National Capital Territory, Delhi in India is under the grip of extreme pressure to meet demand for its water resources due to urbanization, improvements in living standards, expanding population etc. Therefore, quantitative ...

समस्थानिक तकनीकों द्वारा टिहरी जलाशय से जल रिसाव के स्रोतो का आंकलन

राय, एस. पी.; कुमार, भीष्म; कुमार, सुधीर; गर्ग, पंकज कुमार; रावत, वाई. एस. (निसकेयर, 2012)

टिहरी बांध का निर्माण गंगा की मुख्य सहायक नदी भागीरथी पर किया गया|

Environmental flows in India: towards sustainable water management

Jain, Sharad K.; Kumar, Pradeep (Taylor & Francis, 2014)

The strong wet and dry seasons of tropical monsoon hydrology in India necessitate development of storage and flow diversion schemes for utilization of water to meet various social and economic needs. However, the river ...

Assessment of environmental flow requirements for hydropower projects in India

Jain, Sharad K. (Current Science Association, 2015)

Increasing water withdrawals from many rivers of the world is leading to severe degradation in river ecosystems. Water is allocated for environmental needs so that a river can perform its natural functions. Environmental ...

Streamflow data-sharing policy for the Ganga Basin

Jain, Sharad K. (Current Science Association in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences (India), 2013)

Hilly regions of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh witnessed a spell of widespread torrential rainfall from 15 to 17 June 2013. India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted on 14 June that rainfall ...

Book reviews of Bengaluru Water Resource Management: Challenges and Remedies

Jain, Sharad K. (CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 109, NO. 8, 25 OCTOBER 2015, 2015)

agro-ecosystems is more than the proportion that damages crops has been highlighted. Examples of people locally protecting birds in agriculture fully aware of their usefulness have also been incorporated. These examples ...

A comparative study of artificial neural network and hybrid model for prediction of Groundwater level

Kumar, Sumant; Ghosh, N. C.; Singh, Surjeet (IWRS, IIT Roorkee, 2013)

The depletion of groundwater table in some areas causing concerns for the long term sustainability of groundwater resources in India. For the effective management of groundwater, it is important to know fluctuations of ...

Ballasted sand flocculation for water, wastewater and CSO treatment

Kumar, Sumant; Ghosh, N. C.; Kazmi, A. A. (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

Ballasted Sand Flocculation (BSF) technique based on coagulation and flocculation with injection of micro-sand has emerged as an efficient and quick method for treatment of water, wastewater and combined sewer overflow ...

Classification acuracy analyses using Shanons entropy

Indwar, Shashi Poonam; Patel, Nilanchal (International Research Publication House, 2014)

There are many methods for determining the classification accuracy. In this paper the significance of entropy of training signatures in classification has been shown.

Performance evaluation of riverbank filtration scheme

Ghosh, N. C.; Khatania, Saroj Kumari; Indwar, Shashi Poonam; Sandhu, Cornelius; Jain, Sanjay Mittal; Goel, Rakesh (Current Science Association in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences (India), 2015)

This article presents an analytical method to determine the distance of a bank filtration well from a river in commensuration with the desired percentage of bank filtrate and removal of pathogenic compounds. Applying ...

Flash floods ! Threatning the Himalayan region

Jain, S. K.; Lohani, A. K.; Jain, Sharad K. (NISCAIR, 2013)

Geologically Uttarakhand is located in a fragile and the worlds youngest mountain range. It is inherently vulnerable to various kinds of disasters such as high intensity rainfall, cloud bursts, landslides, flash floods and ...

Estimation of drainage requirement for irrigated land

Pandey, R. P.; Agarwal, Avinash; Boonstra, J. (The Indian Association of Hydrologists, 1998)

A comparison of the methods for estimation of drainage requirement for an irrigated area indicate that the methods which do not accounts for the net natural subsurface flow, under the condition of existence of drain, may ...

Removal of oil from CO2 compressor effluent of ammonia plant

Singh, Rajesh (IWRS, IIT Roorkee, 2014)

The removal of organic contaminants, particularly emulsified oil from wastewater is of great technological importance for environmental protection. In this article, the decontamination of ammonia manufacturing facility ...

Training, research and application in hydrology and water resources development and management – how to bridge the gap?

Kumar, Rakesh; Singh, R. D.; Arora, Manohar; Patra, J. P.; Sapra, T. R. (Current Science Association in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences (India), 2016)

Due to advent of computations facilities and emerging technologies in the field of water sector, the gap between research and its applications is rapidly increasing. Problems and challenges in the field of hydrology and ...

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