• Contents 

  Rao, M. S.; Khobragade, S. D.; Kumar, Bhishm; Singh, R. D. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)
• Foreword 

  Singh, R. D. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)
• Preface 

  Rao, M. S.; Khobragade, S. D.; Kumar, Bhishm; Singh, R. D. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)
• Acknowledgements 

  Rao, M. S.; Khobragade, S. D.; Kumar, Bhishm; Singh, R. D. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)
• Theme-I-1-Determinants for contaminationss risk zoning of groundwater - A case study of an industrial town of Punjab. 

  Gill, G. S.; Arora, Harish (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  Ludhiana is one of the biggest city of Punjab occupying central place and has a dubious distinction of being one of the most polluted settlement of the country due to rapid growth of industrialization. Out of about 25,000 ...
• Theme-I-2-Groundwater quality assessment near a municipal landfill of a planned city of Punjab (India) 

  Arora, Shakti; Sidhu, Maninder Kaur (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  The current research examined the level of groundwater contamination near a municipal landfill site in Mohali, Punjab. Water quality parameters (physico-chemical and heavy metals) of leachate and groundwater samples were ...
• Theme-I-3-Assessment of the water quality of the Swan river watershed. 

  Venu; Rishi, Madhuri S. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  The water, one of the essentials for life and nothing is more fundamental to it on earth.Rivers being one of the major source of water, are the circulatory system of the nations. They are helping in meeting the demands of ...
• Theme-I-4-Groundwater quality assessment and its suitability for drinking purpose - A case study of Barnala block, District Sangrur, Punjab (India) 

  Venu; Rishi, Madhuri S. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  In the groundwater protection and its conservation, Groundwater quality plays an important role. Due to growing populations and increasing pollution of surface water bodies we are depending more and more on finite groundwater ...
• Theme-I-5-Assessment of groundwater quality for irrigation purpose in Amritsar district, Punjab (India) 

  Mahesh, J.; Rao, G. Tamma; Surinaidu, Lagudu; Prasanthi, Y.; Ramesh, G.; Rao, V. V. S. Gurunadha; Acharya, P. S. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  Amritsar district is one of major intensive agriculture districts of Punjab, producing food grains to the Indian nation. The district is covering about 5058 sq.km area drained by two perennial rivers Ravi and Beas. Irrigation ...
• Theme-I-6-Assessment of water quality in groundwater in Bist-Doab region. 

  Rao, M. S.; Gupta, A. K.; Krishan, Gopal; Kumar, Bhishm; Rawat, Y. S.; Marwah, Sanjay; Gupta, Sushil (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  Deterioration of groundwater quality leads to hazardous effects on human health. The unutilized fertilizers leach to aquifers thus polluting groundwater. Thus, a case study was conducted for analyzing the Electrical ...
• Theme-I-7-Hydrochemical evalution of groundwater quality in parts of district Patiala, Punjab, India in relation to agricultural suitability. 

  Ghosh, Nibedita; Rishi, Madhuri S.; Latha, Renu; Kamaldeep (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)
• Theme-I-8-Data analysis for characterization of depleting water table and water quality in central Punjab. 

  Ram, Shobha; Garg, P. K.; Kumar, Sudhir (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  In this paper, analysis of rainfall pattern, water quality and water table fluctuations locally as well as on regional scale in Central Punjab region is carried out. Spatial and district wise rainfall analysis on yearly ...
• Theme-II-1-Soil water infiltration model (SWIM) for estimation of groundwater recharge in Ludhiana district, Punjab. 

  Rao, V. V. S. Gurunadha; Surinaidu, Lagudu; Kumar, K. Mahesh (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  Soil Water Infiltration Model (SWIM) has been applied for computation of groundwater recharge from an irrigated paddy field in PAU Campus. Total precipitation and applied irrigation has been about 2460 mm. The model out ...
• Theme-II-2-Climate variability analysis on flow duration curve of a large Himalayan river. 

  Arora, Manohar; Kumar, Rakesh; Singh, R. D.; Kumar, Naresh (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  The impact of climate change is projected to have different effects within and between countries. Climate change is likely to threaten food production, increase water stress and decrease its availability, result in sea ...
• Theme-II-3-Streamflow modelling at Rampur, Satluj basin, Punjab. 

  Kumar, A. R. Senthil; Khobragade, S. D.; Arora, Manohar; Singh, R. D.; Nema, R. K. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  Snow melt runoff is one of the main sources of streamflow in many of Himalayan Rivers. Conceptual models to simulate the snow melt runoff such as Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) and Snowmelt Model (SNOWMOD) require a large ...
• Theme-II-4-Simulation of spatial groundwater behaviour in south-west Punjab. 

  Jain, A. K. (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  The assessment of groundwater resource of South-West Punjab has been carried out through estimate of seasonal groundwater recharge and water balance study. The season-wise (khariflrabi) quantification of various components ...
• Theme-II-5-Simulation of persistence of pesticide residues in groundwater of Ludhiana and Muktsar district, Punjab. 

  Rao, V. V. S. Gurunadha; Surinaidu, Lagudu (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  Groundwater quality analyses carried out for pesticide residues in Ludhiana and Muktsar districts of Punjab have shown the persistence of Organo-Chlorine pesticides of BHC (Lindane), Heptachlor, Heptachlor Epoxide, Endosulfan ...
• Theme-II-6-Regional groundwater modelling of central Punjab. 

  Kumar, Sudhir; Majumdar, P. K.; Mishra, Kumkum (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  Groundwater resources in Punjab are subjected to rapid exploitation in the wake of increasing agriculture, urbanization and industrialization. It is, therefore, necessary to evaluate the existing trend of groundwater in ...
• Theme-III-1-Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use - A case study in the Mogo district of Punjab (India) 

  Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Sharma, Bharat R.; Smakhtin, Vladimir (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  This paper assesses water depletion of agricultural production in the Moga district of the State of Punjab. It particularly focuses on growth in agricultural production and stress on water resources induced by groundwater ...
• Theme-III-2-Geophysical studies for assessment of groundwater potential in old Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Muktsar districts (Punjab) 

  Surinaidu, Lagudu; Mahesh, J.; Padalunaidu, G.; Rajesh, R.; Acharya, P. S.; Sharma, V. S.; Rao, V. V. S. Gurunadha (National Institute of Hydrology, 2010)

  Intensive agriculture is prevalent in Punjab state. Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Muktsar districts of Punjab is drained by three perennial rivers Ravi, Beas and Sutlej. Most of the irrigation water met from groundwater ...

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