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Browsing 23-Proceedings of the 12th National Symposium on Hydrology Groundwater Governance - Ownership of Groundwater and Its Pricing, 14-15 November 2006 at New Delhi by Issue Date

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  • 5-Optimal Groundwater Pumping from Palla Well fields to Augment Drinking Water Supply to Delhi 
    Rao, S. V. N.; Kumar, Sudhir; Shekhar, Shashank; Sinha, S. K. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    A real-life problem involving pumping of groundwater from a series of ninety existing wells along river Yamuna floodplain, northwest of Delhi (India) underlain with geologically occurring saline water is examined within a ...
  • 14-Modelling of a Scavenger Well System. 
    Saravanan, K.; Kashyap, Deepak; Sharma, Anupama (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    A scavenger well system, essentially a skimming well system designed to pump fresh water from a fresh-saline aquifer, consists of two pumping wells located side by side. One of the wells taps the freshwater zone and the ...
  • 39-Sectoral Allocation and Pricing of Groundwater - A Stakeholder View 
    Damle, V. V. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The approach of policy makers and planners at Central and State is to move towards a regime where groundwater resources and their uses are regulated and access and provision of resource are charged for. However, the process ...
  • 15-Groundwater Development in Hilly Terrain - Case Studies in and around Kohima , Nagaland 
    Kikon, E.; Ao, Katiwada (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Significant increase in developmental activities in the State are considered as a factor responsible for scarcity of water during lean periods in most of the townships in hilly areas. With a view to ease partially the water ...
  • 29-Institutional framework of Managing Ground Water in a Water Stressed Region. 
    Bose, Dipankar (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Groundwater utilization has medium and long-term impacts, which affect the future availability and access to the resource. To address the multidimensional requirement of ground water, institutional organizations have an ...
  • 37-Groundwater Ownership and Legal Aspects. 
    Tambe, Jivesh A. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Ground water is fast becoming the most scarce one because of its unabated and indiscriminate over-exploitation than the availability. Archaic laws governing water use and water rights; erosion of community control and ...
  • 26-Groundwater Resource Management in the State of Rajasthan. 
    Mathur, V. N. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Groundwater condition in the state is deteriorating speedily. The stage of groundwater development increased from 35.73% (1984) to 125.13% and number of over-exploited blocks from 12 (1984) to 140 (2004). Water level ...
  • 1-Groundwater Manahement-Emerging Challenges. 
    Romani, Saleem (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Ground water is poorly understood but most sought after resource for meeting the ever-growing demands of different user groups. The stress on groundwater systems is reflected in steep decline of water levels and sharp ...
  • 47-Management Aspects of Groundwater Resources, Community Participation, Augmentation and Restoration 
    Thangarajan, M. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Ground water is the major source to meet the domestic, irrigation and industrial demands. Ground water occurs in a wide range of rock. types and usually requires little or no treatment; therefore, it is often the cheapest ...
  • 41-Groundwater Rights and Water Pricing Structure. 
    Rastogi, A. K. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    In our country the rights of the land owner for groundwater withdrawals are not clearly defined. In the past such a measure was not necessary as there were few users and groundwater potential was adequate for them. For the ...
  • 32-Water Right and Other Alternative to Groundwater Management in India. 
    Rathore, M. S. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Today the nationwide major concern in water resource management is how to check the fast depleting ground water. The stage of groundwater development increased from 37.2 percent in 1998 to 58 percent in 2004 and the ...
  • 35-Control and Regulation of Groundwater through Pricing of Water in the Kerala Scenario. 
    Ajithkumar, P. N.; Sudheer, A. S. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    In India water consumption is increasing day by day. It has been estimated that there can be a shortage of about 450 cubic kilometres of water by the year 2050 A.D. Hence, an efficient use of ground water has to be insisted. ...
  • 16-Affectivity and Extent of Haveli Areas - A System of Water Prosperity. 
    Nema, R. K.; Awasthi, M. K.; Tiwari, Y. K.; Shrivastava, R. N. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Agriculture sector is the major consumer of water. The water for agricultural activities is supplied either by surface water or ground water. Use of ground water is convenient as compared to surface water. In the present ...
  • 20-The Kerala Ground Water Act in Relation to Regional Hydrogeological Conditions of the State. 
    Kukillaya, J. P.; Rajan, A. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The Kerala Ground Water Act recognizes ground water as a valuable resource to be used for the benefit of all sections of society. Seasonal rainfall, limited subsurface storage space and low water retention in laterite make ...
  • 17-Groundwater Management Options - A Case Study of Western Yamuna Canal Command, Haryana. 
    Anandhakumar, K. J.; Kumar, Vijay; Maanjhu, S. K.; Das, P. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Western Yamuna Canal (WJC) Command covers part of the Upper Yamuna Basin and inland alluvial basin in the State of Haryana. The WJC Command of an area about 13,543 sq. km, covers eastern, central and southern parts of the ...
  • 3-Groundwater Management in the State of Punjab. 
    Kaushal, M. P.; Jain, A. K. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Groundwater management strategy was considered as shifting the cropping pattern in such a way so as to reduce the area under the crop having high water requirements thus helping to reduce the demand for irrigation water. ...
  • 44-Pricing Policy and Its Role in Groundwater Management - A Karnataka Experience 
    Najeeb, K. Md.; Sooryanarayana, K. R.; Manzar, Afaque (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Karnataka state has seen a sudden spurt in groundwater structures during the last fifteen years resulting in over-exploitation of groundwater resource in many taluks. Out of 175 taluks, 22 are fully and 102 are partly ...
  • 49-Stakeholders Participation in Groundwater Governance in Kerala. 
    Shaji, E.; Sreenath, G.; Kunhambu, V. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    A new water policy for the Kerala State is required to implement the National Water Policy in a sustainable manner. The current regime of water resources does not recognise stakeholder participation or participatory approach ...
  • 31-Over-Exploitation of Aquifer - Need for Proper Planning, Management Tactics, Awarenessand Logislation (Examples from West Bengal and Orissa) 
    Kar, Amlanjyoti; Gawri, C. P.; Choudhury, Anirban (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    West Bengal and Orissa are two such states in India having vast alluvial aquifers deposited in the deltas along the coastal plains and in the doabs of the inland river valleys. In comparison to West Bengal, extensive areas ...
  • 30-Groundwater Governance - Few Pertinent Issues Relating to Availability and Possible Threat. 
    Ghosh, N. C.; Sharma, Anupama (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The governance issue emerges when there is disproportion in supply and demand, conflicts in sharing and interest of users, disparity in priorities of allocation, threat to availability due to interfering polluting matter, ...