Abstract:
The purpose of this chapter is to document the important reported works in the area of water resources systems carried out by Indian scientists and engineers. This paper provides a broad overview of the applications of operations research techniques for better management of India's water resources; it will also be useful as a reference material. Some time ago, a similar review was presented by Mohile and Jagannathan(1984).
The various journals which are published in India dealing with hydrology and water resources were scanned and those papers which deal with water resources systems were selected. In addition to these, a large number of proceedings of various seminars, symposia, and conferences were also scanned and relevant papers were picked up. It is, however likely that some publications have been inadvertently missed. It may be mentioned that although a large number of papers have been published in this area, both in India and abroad, the applications of these techniques to actual planning, design and operation are rather limited. Vedula(1990) has discussed this aspect in details; he also provides the likely reasons for the same.
