Hydrology is an applied natural science and therefore hydrologists have to deal with vast amount of data. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the volume ...

Design of irrigation systems and judicious application of irrigation water need reliable information on the consumptive use of various crops grown in the command area. In recent past, studies on ...

A fundamental question that confronts any engineer in coastal and deltaic areas is to efficiently manage water resources without any adverse affects from adjoining sea. The coastal aquifers are highly productive and have ...

Irrigation constitutes the main use of water and presently accounts for 84% of the total water withdrawals in India. One of the major concerns in irrigated agriculture is the generally poor efficiency with which water ...

Risk is inherent in nature and society, while uncertainty depends on investigations. Decision making in water resources is most often a deterministic selection of dimensions which divide the probability distribution ...

The state of Uttar Pradesh is drained by the rivers Ganga and Yamuna and their tributaries. Yamuna itself is one of the tributaries of Ganga. The northern and eastern parts are drained by the main rivers and their tributaries ...

Basic hydro-meteorological data are essential for planning and management of water resources projects and therefore are collected over the years with enormous effort and expenditure. For ...

The basic source of water on the earth is precipitation which may be in the form of rainfall or snowfall. Estimates have been made that the entire country received about 400 m ...

Forests are an integral part of ecosystem. Now a days, the existence of forests is generally recognised and understood as an important factor in the economy of the water resources of the watershed. The water balance ...

A good percentage of annual run-off of rivers in the Northern region of India, originating from Himalayas is derived from snow and glaciers. Reliable estimates of volume of water contained ...