Water is the prime requisite of all the developmental activities. Ever since pre-historic period man has been exploiting water resources uninterruptedly for their requirement. Indiscriminate use of water has created an ...

Accelerating water demand, limited and diminishing availability of surface water, fast declining trends of ground water levels in unconfined zone and increasing pollution in surface water makes urban life environmentally ...

The Akshaydhara concept (Gupta and Sharma, 1996), has been examined in a typical urban context of Ahmedabad City. It has been shown that if the available high quality water resources were to be utilised only for potable ...

Rain water that falls on the roof tops of houses, which normally drains out into sewage and storm drains, is the best source of water available to urban dwellers for water harvesting. This roof top rainwater can be conserved ...

The twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad with a radius of 15 Kms. covering an area of about 700 Sq.Km has a population of 44.00 lakhs as per 1991 census. Of this about 30 lakhs live in the densly populated Minicipal ...

This paper presents results of a study carried out to determine the potential for harvesting rain water from roofs and paved areas in the individual houses in the region of Mysore. Rural and urban areas are dealt with ...

Artificial re-charge methods are proposed in order to revamp the depleting ground water resources, to prevent/retard salt water intrusion and to store water underground where surface facilities are inadequate to meet ...

Sardar Sarovar is an interstate, multipurpose termin-.1 project on river Narmada. The top R.L. of dam is 146.50 m but some blocks of main dam are still under construction and existing at a height of 85.0 m. The work of dam ...

A study on runoff and soil loss was conducted (1986-99) to study the effect of rainfall, degree and length of slope in vertisols of Bellary (Karnataka) on runoff, soil loss and to determine optimum length of runoff plots. ...