Proceedings of the International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy and Society (WEES-2009), 12-16 January 2009 at New Delhi, India, Vol.-3: Recent submissions

  • 144-Design of STS for PUDA and Usage of Treated Wastewater for Irrigation. 
    Pasupuleti, Srinivas; Anduri, Sreenivasulu; Vaikantam, Raveendra Kumar (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The primary objective of this study is to design a sewage treatment system for Puttaparthy Urban Development Authority (PUDA) in A.P and usage of treated wastewater for Irrigation. In this modern world of advanced techniques, ...
  • 145-Distribution of Heavy Metals in the Sediment of Yamuna River, Agra, India. 
    Mishra, Anjali; Singh, Monika; Verghese, P. Susan (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Yamuna, a tributary of river Ganga, flows northeastern part of Agra, get contaminated with various pollutants introduced by various drains of Agra city. These pollutants adsorbed on the sediment, which reflects the current ...
  • 146-Groundwater Quality—Emerging Challenges. 
    Tyagi, Avdhesh K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    This paper presents the groundwater contamination issues from various sources and how to protect the quality of groundwater. Wellhead protection is used for point source pollutants environment. Also included in the paper ...
  • 147-Total Dissolved Zinc and Total Particulate Zinc in Nozha Hydrodrome. 
    Saad, Massoud A. H.; El-Safty, Alaa M. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The Hydrodrome, covering area of 5.04 km2 and average depth of 2.11 m, became polluted in recent years from the feeding contaminated Nile water. Surface water samples were collected monthly from this lake for studying ...
  • 148-Groundwater Contamination Modelling Underneath Regina Landfill. 
    Muricken, D. G.; Jin, Y. C. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    A three-dimensional finite difference regional groundwater model for the aquifers underlying the Regina area is developed. The conceptual model consists of four hydrogeological layers. Specifying zones of constant properties ...
  • 149-Leaching Assessment of Pathogen Indicators in the Tropical Soils of Hawaii 
    Ray, Chittaranjan (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Ground water contamination from human pathogens is a concern in tropical islands where ground water is the source of drinking water. Understanding the processes of pathogen behavior, especially in unsaturated tropical ...
  • 150-Simulation of Aerobic and Anaerobic Biodegradation Process for Contaminated Aquifers. 
    Prasad, Ram Kailash; Mathur, Shashi (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The high cost and poor performance of many groundwater remedial systems have led researchers to consider the natural aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation process as an alternative technique for effective groundwater ...
  • 151-A Modified Picard's Method for Virus Transport in Ground Water. 
    Ratha, Dwarika Nath; Ojha, C. S. P.; Prasad, K. S. Hari (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Solution of transport equation by conventional numerical methods such as finite difference and finite element analysis exhibit either excessive diffusion and/or oscillations near the concentration front. This is due to the ...
  • 152-Analysis of Concentration Profiles for Reactive Transport in Fractured Porous Media. 
    Sharma, Pramod K.; Srivastava, Rajesh (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Transport of reactive chemicals in a fractured porous media is affected by various factors such as sorption, degradation and physical process of advection and dispersion. In this study we investigate effect of first-order ...
  • 153-Assessment of Water Quality at RBF Site Haridwar. 
    Thakur, Aseem K.; Ojha, C. S. P.; Grischek, Thomas; Sandhu, Cornelius; Jha, Ramakar (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Many highly populated cities and towns in India are situated on riverbanks and have favourable hydrogeologic conditions necessary for the natural and cost-effective process of River Bank Filtration (RBF). Two drinking water ...
  • 154-Case Study on Assessment of Ground Water Quality at Ludhiana. 
    Shrivastava, N. G.; Srivastava, Neelam; Bhatnagar, S.; Kumar, Brajesh; Agarwal, Sanjeev; Trivedi, R. C. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The studies were undertaken for the Assessment of Ground Water Quality of Ludhiana metrocity (Punjab). The ground water flow in the city is from North to South. There is no source of surface water in the study area (Ludhiana). ...
  • 155-Dissolved Noble Gases in Groundwater Hydrology. 
    Deshpande, R. D.; Gupta, S. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The studies of dissolved noble gases of atmospheric and terrestrial origin have made important contributions to groundwater hydrology in recent decades. The dependence of noble gas solubility on the physical condition, in ...
  • 156-Water Quality Indexing Applied to Groundwater Quality Parameters. 
    Nowbuth, M. D.; Yuk, A. Chan Chim (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Landuse activities have both direct and indirect impacts on the quality of water resources, be it surface water or groundwater sources. In addition, once polluted groundwater bodies may not recover from that pollution. The ...
  • 157-Predicting Groundwater Quality Using Geo-Statistical Approach. 
    Singh, Omkar; Kumar, Vijay; Choubey, V. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The sustainable management of groundwater resources needs information on its quantity and quality in space and time. Knowledge of spatial variability of groundwater quality is essential for making reliable groundwater ...
  • 158-Borehole-Mediated Remediation of Contaminated Groundwater within the Vicinity of a Mining Operation in South Africa. 
    Singo, Mangaga; Okonkwo, Jonathan (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Mining of ores involves the excavation of large quantities of waste rock from which the desired mineral ore is extracted. The waste rock forms the major source of most of the pollutions caused by mining. The contaminants, ...
  • 159-Cluster Analysis of Groundwater Quality Data of Trombay Region, Maharashtra. 
    Tirumalesh, K.; Shivanna, K.; Sriraman, A. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    This paper summarizes the findings obtained in a monitoring study to understand the sources and processes affecting the quality of groundwater in Trombay region using cluster analysis. Three distinct types of groundwater ...
  • 160-Status of Ground Water Quality in Masuda Tehsil of Ajmer District, Rajasthan. 
    Datta, Subroto; Chowhan, Pinkey (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water is one of the most important blessings we have received from nature. It acts as a limiting factor for survival of human being. As it is required to meet the increasing demand of power, economic growth and industrialization, ...
  • 161-Geo-Hydrochemistry of SalineGround Water, Purna Alluvial Basin, Maharashtra. 
    Srivastava, Ashok K.; Mankar, Rupesh S.; Parimal, Pravin S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Ninety-four groundwater samples from two aquifer systems lying at shallow (15-25 m) and deeper depth (70-90 m) have been analyzed for their physical and chemical parameters in pre- and post- monsoon periods of the year ...
  • 162-Impact of Industrial Activity on Ground Water Quality—A Case Study from Orissa. 
    Mohanty, J. K.; Das, M.; Brahma, S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Ground water has an advantage of being less contaminated than the surface water due to its mode of occurrence. However the geological conditions such as porosity, permeability, fracture pattern of the overlying rock formation ...
  • 163-Analysis of Water Quality at Watershed-Scale and Equity Considerations in Pollution Control and Management . 
    Kaluarachchi, Jagath; Khadam, Ibrahim (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Proper management of water quality at watershed scale, especially due to non-point source pollutants, is of great importance where considerable revenue is generated to the local and national economies. Management of ...

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