Sharma, K. D.(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
There is no specific definition for Lakes in India. The word "Lake" is used
loosely to describe many types of water bodies — natural, manmade and ephemeral
including wetlands. Many of them are euphemistically called Lakes ...
Dwivedi, V. K.(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Water in rivers and lakes amount to be less than 1% of (by volume) the
world's water budget but its importance to life and human geography is enormous. It is
estimated that the world's lakes contain about four times more ...
Singh, Omkar(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Water is a prime natural resource, a basic human need and a precious
national asset. Planning, development and management of water resources need to be
governed by national perspectives. As per the latest assessment ...
Kumar, Ravindra(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Natural lakes are fairly large bodies of water occupying inland basins that
are extremely varied in terms of size, shape, depth, water chemistry, and other features.
Surface area of lakes varies from only a few hectares ...
Sharma, M. K.(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Water is an essential element of earth's natural environment. All living
being depend on it, in one way or another. It is one of the most important sources for
drinking, irrigation and industrial purposes. Growing ...
Systematic Studies of sedimentation rate variations are essential for
interpretation of a variety of lake sediment interaction processes and also important in the
study of the kinetics of transfer between the lake sediment ...
Jain, Sanjay Kumar(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Computers have been used in the field of hydrology and water resources for
many years as means of organising information in order to solve management problems. At
the same time the use of Geographical Information Systems ...
Singh, S. K.(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Water bodies are the common features on the land surface and are
important in respect of various water uses. Keeping in view their importance in many
hydrologic and economic fields, their hydrologic studies are of much ...
Singh, K. P.(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Hydrogeological observations around lakes/wetlands are important to
understand the surface/subsurface water relationships. These observations also help to
alleviate the environmental problems such as water logging and ...
Tarai, Ashok(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Lakes are being used for the purpose of drinking water and for tourist
centre. The ecosystem of lake is loaded with pollutants from vicinity catchment. The
catchment inflow is reducing day by day with rapid infrastructure ...
Gill, G. S.(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
Lake like any body of standing water, serves as the repository for
materials carried into it by water, wind, ice, and the activities of living creatures. These
materials include:
Fine particles of minerals, rock fragments, ...
Tuli, Naresh(National Institute of Hydrology, 2007)
The quality of water is determined by studying its various properties,
broadly categorized as physical, chemical and biological. As far as the physical quality of
water is concerned, it should be colourless, odourless ...