NIH Digital Repository: Recent submissions

  • 251-Need of Emerging Agriculture and Rainwater Management for Development of Micro-Level Water Resource in Eastern India. 
    Pali, G. P.; Sinha, B. L.; Savu, Rama Mohan (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Chhattisgarh is one of the most drought-prone states of eastern India even as it receives 1200-1600 mm rainfall annually. Droughts of varying intensity occur once in 2-3 years causing huge losses to its main rice crop and ...
  • 252-Rain Gardens as Artificial Recharge Measures in Hyderabad International Airport Watersheds, RR District, A.P. 
    Rao, V. V. S. Gurunadha; Prakash, B. A.; Ramesh, K.; Kumar, K. Mahesh (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Hyderabad International Airport at Shamshabad covers an area of about 5000 Acres. It is proposed to develop grass and green belt in 2000 acres, diverting all the obstructions, filling and leveling. Terminal Building 67500 ...
  • 253-Irrigation and Fertilizer Management for Potato in a Subtropical Region. 
    Panda, Rabindra K.; Behera, Subrat K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Sustainability of irrigated agriculture mainly depends upon efficient management of water and fertilizer in order to enhance crop productivity, minimize leaching and ground water pollution related problems. Potato is one ...
  • Reservoir operation studies of sabarmati system, India 
    Jain, Sharad K.; Goel, M. K.; Agarwal, P. K. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998)
    In India reservoirs are usually constructed to serve multiple purposes, such as irrigation municipal and industrial water supply, hydropower generation and flood control. Because of the high temporal and geographical ...
  • Hydrological Modeling in India 
    Singh, Riddhi; Mishra, Vimal; Narasimhan, Balaji; Ghosh, Subimal; Sharma, Anupama; Dutta, Subashisa; Mujumdar, P. P. (Indian National Science Academy, 2020)
    Human alteration of the natural environment continues nearly unabated in many parts of the world. This has resulted in exploitation of natural resources including water, over and above their limits of natural replenishment. ...
  • Estimating aquifer recharge in fractured hard rock: analysis of the methodological challenges and application to obtain a water balance (Jaisamand Lake Basin, India) 
    Rohde, Melissa M.; Edmunds, W. Mike; Freyberg, David; Sharma, Om Prakash; Sharma, Anupama (Springer, 2015)
    Groundwater recharge is an important metric for sustainable water management, particularly in semiarid regions. Hard-rock aquifers underlie two-thirds of India and appropriate techniques for estimating groundwater recharge ...
  • 254-Development of Water Resources, Conservation and Management for Crop Production in Ghatampur Watershed. 
    Kumar, Manish; Singh, R. B.; Singh, R. A. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The study was laidout under National Watershed Development Programme for Rainfed Area's at Ghatampur, district Kanpur Dehat from 1994-95 to 2005-06, to evaluate the impact of soil and water conservation technology on runoff, ...
  • 255-Hydrological Investigations in Salt Affected Areas of Gohana Region, Haryana. 
    Choubey, V. K.; Singh, Omkar; Srivastava, S. L. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The aim of the study was to evaluate hydrological characteristics of saline soils around Gohana Tahsil in Haryana. In the present study, field experiments were conducted to determine various soil physicochemical properties ...
  • Model assisted design of scavenger well system 
    Saravanan, K.; Kashyap, Deepak; Sharma, Anupama (Elsevier, 2014)
    A scavenger well system is designed to skim/pump fresh water from a fresh–saline aquifer. It consists of a production and a scavenging well in close vicinity tapping the shallow fresh water and the deeper saline water ...
  • 256-Inter-Basin Water Transfers Feasibility Analysis and Ethical Assessment. 
    Rossi, G. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Since the ancient civilizations, Inter-Basin Water Transfers (IBWT) have been implemented to supply urban areas and/or irrigated districts lacking of adequate local water resources. As a consequence of growing water demands ...
  • 257-Long-Term Integrated Water Management in the German Elbe River Basin. 
    Becker, Alfred (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    A general Integration Methodology and Approach management in large river basins. Main steps of the approach are: 1. Problem description and goals definition 2. Conceptualisation 3. Scenario definition and alternative ...
  • 258-Mechanism for Solving Water Disputes—Present Scenario and Some Suggestions. 
    Subramania, R. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water Dispute Tribunals refer to the Equitable Apportionment theory for apportioning the waters of an interstate river among the basin States. They are guided by Helsinki Rules 1966 which have stipulated certain guidelines ...
  • 259-. Export and Import of Virtual Water from Different States of India Related to Food Grain Trade . 
    Kumar, Vijay; Jain, Sharad K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Virtual water refers to the water required in the production of goods or services. The adjective 'virtual' refers to the fact that most of the water used in the production is in the end not contained within the product. ...
  • 260-GP Model for Predicting Evaporation and Seepage Losses from Reservoir. 
    Sivapragasam, C.; Maran, J. J.; Chandrabose, T.; Samsutheen, K. S. M.; Ganesan, N. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Evaporation is one of the least satisfactorily explained components of the hydrologic cycle because, unlike say stream flow, it cannot be directly measured but must be estimated based on mass transfer, or energy or water ...
  • Downscaling of climatic data using statistical techniques in coastal saurashtra, Gujarat 
    Singh, Vikrant Vijay; Sharma, Anupama; Joshi, P. C. (Indian Water Resources Society, 2015)
    Downscaling of Global Circulation Models (GCMs) outputs is important to assess regional climate change impacts. Coarse resolution of GCMs presents averaged weather conditions. GCMs outputs cannot be used directly and are ...
  • 261-Interlinking Rivers of South Asia for Improving the Quality of Life. 
    Acharya, Bishwa (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) is home to nearly one-fifth of the world's population residing on one-fiftieth of the land area of our Planet Earth. South Asia has the highest population density (400 ...
  • 262-Water Resources Planning Using Multiobjective Differential Evolution. 
    Vasan, A.; Gupta, Piyush; Raju, K. Srinivasa (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Multiobjective formulations are realistic models for many complex engineering optimization problems. In this paper, the applicability of Multiobjective Differential Evolution (MODE) in irrigation planning is demonstrated ...
  • 263-Integrated Water Resource Management 
    Pandey, Vikrama; Mishra, S. S.; Dey, U. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water is a critical, but often overlooked, element in sustainable development. Water is a key ingredient in generating rural livelihoods, growing food, producing energy, encouraging industrial and service sector growth, ...
  • 264-Water Losses and Economical Savings of Few Industries at Visakhapatnam. 
    Kolluru, Satish Kumar; Pasupuleti, Srinivas; Konda, Anitha Kanthi (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water audit identifies water uses such as sanitation, irrigation, heating and cooling process and maintenance of the distribution system. Unaccountable losses are investigated and areas are identified using water auditing, ...
  • 265-Water Saving in Biogas Plants—A Revolutionary Technology. 
    Gupta, Urmila; Jain, Ritesh; Singh, Jaspal; Sooch, Sarbjit Singh; Khullar, N. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    More than 3 million family size biogas plants have so far been installed in the countryside under the National Project on Biogas Development implemented by ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources since 1983. Various ...