• Environmental Tracers in the Identification of the Groundwater Salinity—Case Studies from Northwest India 

  Krishan, Gopal; Kumar, Bhishm; Rao, M. S.; Yadav, Brijesh K.; Kansal, M. L.; Garg, Rahul; Kumar, Mohit; Kumar, Ravi (Springer Nature, 2022)

  In the face of the burgeoning climate crisis and ever-increasing human consumption demands, the disparate distribution of the water cycle is greatly amplified, resulting in frequent extreme events like drought and flooding. ...
• Groundwater Resources in Punjab and Bist-Doab Area: An Appraisal and Overview 

  Krishan, Gopal; Rao, M. S.; Ghosh, N. C. (Capital Publishing Company, 2022)

  Punjab, a land of five rivers (in hindi Punch nada), namely, Beas, Sutlej, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum are historically part of larger Punjab region comprising parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan on international front and states ...
• Assessment of Heavy Metals in Sediments from Exploratory Wells for Riverbank Filtration Sites Impacted by Extreme Environmental Conditions Using Principal Component Analysis 

  Krishan, Gopal; Sandhu, Cornelius; Grischek, T.; Ghosh, N. C.; Singh, Surjeet; Ganapathi, H.; Arora, N. (Springer, 2022)

  Heavy metal contamination of sediments is often observed as a result of the expansion of industrial sectors and agro-economic systems, especially in developing regions. The high pollution of the river Yamuna in India, ...
• Hydrogeology, Groundwater Regimes, and Quality Issues in Punjab 

  Krishan, Gopal; Nagar, Anoop; Angurala, M. L.; Rana, Rakesh; Sudarsan, N. (Eds.) (Apple Academic Press, Inc. Co-published with CRC Press (Taylor & Francis), 2022)

  Punjab is an agrarian state, which relies heavily on groundwater resources for irrigation in spite of a well-organized canal irrigation system distributing water from three perennial rivers namely Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi ...
• Groundwater Salinity—Impacts and Possible Remedial Measures and Management Solutions 

  Krishan, Gopal; Prakash, Jay; Dasgupta, Purnaba; Mackenzie, Andrew; Devi, Thiyam Tamphasana (Springer Nature, 2022)

  t Groundwater, the largest freshwater resource, is used for drinking, irrigation, and industrial uses worldwide. Ever-increasing demands have accelerated the consumption of groundwater resources leading to its exploitation ...
• Surface and groundwater interactions: Methodology and changing chemical processes 

  Krishan, Gopal; Bhagwat, Anjali (Elsevier, 2022)

  In the recent times, there is a growing demand for creating sustainability in both groundwater and surface water bodies in order to optimize water uses and for reaching a good ecological state. Hydrologically, both surface ...
• Case Study 20: Sustainable and year-round drinking water production by riverbank filtration in Haridwar, India 

  Sandhu, Cornelius; Grischek, Thomas; Kimothi, Prakash C.; Sharma, Sudhir K.; Kumar, Subodh; Uniyal, Harsh P.; Ghosh, N. C.; Krishan, Gopal; Kumar, Pradeep; Mehrotra, Indu (UNESCO, 2021)

  The riverbank filtration (RBF) scheme in Haridwar by the Ganga River and Upper Ganga Canal (UGC), consisting of 22 caisson wells, is operating sustainably for > 50 years [1,2] (Figure 1; Box 1). A consistent removal of ...
• Groundwater Resources Management Using Remote Sensing and GIS 

  Sambare, Rohit; Singh, Vishal; Jain, Sanjay K. (Springer, 2021)

  The advancement of RS technology since last few decades had opened various avenues for better and rapid management of natural resources (Cracknell 2018). Technological inventions had made data of satellite products from ...
• Study of spatio temporal variation of groundwater drought in Bearma basin 

  Kumar, Dinesh; Thomas, T.; Singh, R. M. (Hydro 2014, 2014)

  Drought is an important phenomenon in recent years which caused a lot of problems for most of areas in Bundelkhand region in central India
• Groundwater drought scenario in Bundelkhand region of Central India -A case study of Sonar basin in Madhya Pradesh 

  Thomas, T.; Bhatt, Vivek Kumar (2014)

  Drought which occurs when ever the links in the hydrologic cycle are destabilized is considered as one of the most hazardous causes of human hardships.
• Assessment of Revised Capacity in a Reservoir of Chhattisgarh State of India Using Digital Image Processing Technique of Remote Sensing Data 

  Awadhiya, S. K.; Sonkusale, D. K.; Jaiswal, R. K.; Galkate, R. V. (Excellent Publishing House, New Delhi, 2014)

  The process of sedimentation in reservoir embodies the sequential process of erosion, entrainment, transportation,deposition and compaction of sediment and reduces the water storage capacity of reservoir and availability ...
• Drought assessment of Bundelkhand in Central India based on Drought index suited for Climate change 

  Thomas, T.; Jaiswal, R. K.; Galkate, R. V.; Ghosh, N. C. (Excel Publisher, New Delhi, 2013)

  Droughts are regional phenomena caused due to lack of precipitation events in a region over a period of time with its severily depending on the degree of moisture deficiency, its duration and its aerial extent.
• Rainfall analysis & assessment of irrigation water in a command of drought affected Bundelkhand region (M.P.), India 

  Jaiswal, R. K.; Thomas, T.; Galkate, R. V.; Singh, Surjeet (Excel Publisher, New Delhi, 2013)

  Optimal utilization of existing water resources is an issue of utmost importance in India because of considerable variability of rainfall in space and time coupled with its inadequate and uneven distribution. The Bundelkhand ...
• Low flow analysis in Kharun river basin of Chhattisgarh state 

  Galkate, R. V.; Thomas, T.; Jaiswal, R. K. (IIT Roorkee, 2010)

  Drought duration, frequency and severity of low flow of the past events occurred in the Kharun river basin in Chhattisgarh state are analyzed using daily stream flow data. Stream flow drought severity is the total deficit ...
• Quantification of morphometric characterization for watershed management planning in a western Himalayan Basin, India 

  Nema, M. K.; Lohani, A. K. (Govt. of India, 2016)

  Watershed development and management plans are very important for harnessing surface water and groundwater resources. To prepare a comprehensive watershed development plan, it becomes necessary to understand the topography, ...
• Artificial Neural Networks Modeling for Suspended sediment yield estimation over Kshipra Catchment, Madhya Pradesh 

  Meena, Pramod K.; Khare, Deepak; Nema, M. K. (Govt. of India, 2015)

  Artificial Neural Network is a vigorous technique to develop massive relationship between the input and output variables, and able to remove complex behavior between the water resources variables such as river sediment and ...
• Application of the Geomorphologic instantaneous unit hydrograph concept for runoff prediction in an ungauged catchment 

  Nema, M. K.; Lohani, A. K. (Govt. of India, 2015)

  Reliable prediction of the runoff generation and its routing to the outlets represents one of the most basic challenging and important aspect of the hydrology,
• Water Conservation and Management: Towards a Societal and Technological Initiative for Sustainable Development 

  Singh, P. K.; Nema, M. K.; Jain, Sharad K.; Mishra, S. K. (The Institution of Engineers; Civil Engineering Division Board, 2016)

  III mallY regions oj india Gild 'he world as a whole, water has been considered a/ree resource. Howevel; recent climatic vagaries, the Izydrologic e.xtreme el'e11lS slich as droughts, floods and dwindling waleI' ...
• Agricultural Water Footprint: A Way Forward for Water Conservation and Management 

  Chalisgaonkar, Deepa; Jain, Sharad K.; Nema, M. K.; Mishra, P. K. (The Institution of Engineers; Civil Engineering Division Board, 2016)

  Over the years, increasing population, growing industrialization, expanding agriculture and rising standards of living have pushed up the demand for water ill India. Besides (he obviolls implicatiolls on [he ellvirOllmem ...
• Investigating Regional Trends for the KBK Region of Odisha, India 

  Mishra, P. K.; Jain, Sharad K.; Jain, Sanjay K. (Excellent Publishing House, 2014)

  The study investigates trend for rainfall, temperature and potential evapotranspiration for the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) region in the state of Odisha using Mann-Kendall (MK) test and Sen’s Slope estimator. The ...

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