Proceedings of the 12th National Symposium on Hydrology "Grounwater Governance - Ownership of Groundwater and Its Pricing" 14-15 November 2006 at New Delhi: Recent submissions

  • Contents 
    Romani, Saleem; Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Kaushik, Y. B. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
  • Prelude 
    Romani, Saleem; Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Kaushik, Y. B. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
  • A Brief Report on the Papers 
    Romani, Saleem; Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Kaushik, Y. B. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
  • Acknowledgement 
    Romani, Saleem; Sharma, K. D.; Ghosh, N. C.; Kaushik, Y. B. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
  • 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 ...
  • 2-Groundwater Resources of India -Towards a Framework for Practical Management and Effective Administration 
    Foster, Stephen; Garduno, Hector (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    This paper is intended as a contribution to the on-going discussion on the development of a framework for appropriate and effective groundwater resources management taking account of the main groundwater settings occurring ...
  • 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. ...
  • 4-Challenges of Groundwater Management in Hard Rock Terrain - Acase Study from Tamil Nadu, India 
    Nandakumaran, P. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The yield characteristics of shallow aquifers in hard consolidated rocks, which underlie a major part of India and form important aquifer systems, are severely limited by their considerable heterogeneity and extremely low ...
  • 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 ...
  • 6-Origin and Recharge Zones of Ground Water in a Himalayan Catchment - An Isotopic Approach 
    Rai, S. P.; Kumar, Bhishm; Jacob, Noble; Navada, S. V.; Verma, S. K.; Garg, P. K.; Rawat, Y. S. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Generally ground water emerges out in the form of natural springs as an important source of drinking water in the mountainous regions. An attempt has been made to study the origin and natural recharge zones of ground water ...
  • 7-Emerging Challenges in Groundwater Resource Management before Newly Created State with Special Reference to Chhattisgarh. 
    Mukherjee, Arunanghshu; Tewari, Dinesh (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The newly formed developing states like Chhattisgarh, which is predominantly agriculture based, has unique problems of groundwater resource development and management, unlike other developed states of the country due to ...
  • 8-Design of Sustainable Water Supply for Hindalco-Muri Works in Subarnarekha Riverbed Aquifer, Ranchi District, Jharkhand 
    Rao, V. V. S. Gurunadha; Prakash, B. A.; Krupanidhi, K. V. J. R.; Kumar, K. Mahesh; Ramesh, M.; Kumar, N. Pavan; Kumar, K. Krishna (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Hindalco Industries Ltd Muri works Alumina plant requires water of about 500 m3/hr after expansion at Muri, Ranchi District, Jharkhand. No deep-seated fractures could be seen in the area. Detailed groundwater exploration ...
  • 9-Implications of Submersible Pumps in Declining Water Table Areas of Trans Indo-Gangetic Plains. 
    Kaledhonkar, M. J.; Gupta, S. K.; Saxena, C. K.; Sharma, D. P. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Declining water table has emerged as the most serious challenge to sustainability of irrigated agriculture in many states of India. In the trans Indo-Gangetic plains comprising Punjab and Haryana, water table in few blocks ...
  • 10-Artificial Groundwater Recharge Planning in Northern Uttar Pradesh Using Remote Sensing and GIS 
    Roy, Moumita; Sharma, H. C.; Kumar, Ambrish (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    The over-exploitation of ground water has become an acute problem in the agriculturally important states e.g. Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Over-exploitation of ground water ...
  • 11-Groundwater Scenario under Changing Climate - Rajasthan. 
    Goyal, R. K. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    One of the primary threats from climatic changes is because of increase in evaporative losses and water demands caused by higher temperature. The increase in water demand due to increase in evaporative losses will have ...
  • 12-Groundwater Perspectives of Small Islands -Lakshadweep Islands, India. 
    Sundaresan, J. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    Hydrological perspective of small islands is low and scarce. All the atolls of Lakshadweep islands and more than five hundred islets/islands of Andaman and Nicobar islands are of the group of small and low islands. The ...
  • 13-Use of Iron-Rich Groundwater for Irrigation in Sonitpur District of Assam. 
    Hazarika, U. M.; Patra, S. C. (Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2006)
    In the North-Eastern region, abstraction of ground water brings lot of iron from the subsurface layers to the surface. The deposition of iron takes place on the surface and in the sub-surface soil due to continuous use of ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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