In ancient Indian civilization, the importance of water for life was very well established. The issues related to different sources of water, its quality and conservation have been repeatedly talked about in Vedic ...

The importance of water has increased multifold recently. The main reason for it is alarmingly increasing population and catering its need for various purposes. In addition to it rapid expansions in urbanization and ...

According to the 2019 statistics, the population of India is likely to be around 135 crores. The large quantity of water will be needed to meet the food and other needs of this large population. To meet the water requirements ...

Droughts, in India, occur every year at varying intensities. It results due to high temporal and spatial variations in rainfall and climatic conditions. About 68 percent topography of the country is prone to drought of ...

Protection of the public lives and properties from the consequences of dam failures has become important as population have concentrated in areas vulnerable to dam break disasters. Due to unfavorable site condition, ...

With the development of computation capability and readily available computer programs, flow inundation modelling based flood hazard mapping are widely practiced.For such analysis, digital elevation models (DEMs) are ...

Water is an important component of human life but its availability and distribution is not the same everywhere. The problem of water is becoming acute due to teeming population, intensification in the number of dependents ...