NIH Digital Repository: Recent submissions

  • 137-Headloss -Flow Relationship in a Scale Model Stormwater Pollutant Trap 
    Saberi, Hamid K.; Nikraz, H.; Hepburn, Will (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The main focus of urban rainwater run-off disposal has traditionally been providing structurally sound drainage systems with the capacity to carry runoff from many different surfaces as quickly and efficiently as possible, ...
  • 138-Seasonal Climate Variations and Watershed Hydrology and Water QualityResponse . 
    Mishra, Ashok; Singh, V. P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water is the most valuable natural resource to maintain ecological balance and sustain life on earth. In recent years, especially in the post technological revolution era, climate is being alleged to have changed, with ...
  • 139-Urban Runoff in Khartoum and its Effect on the Nile Water Quality. 
    Ahmed, M. Elmuntasir I.; Digna, R. F. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    This paper infers upon the quality of urban runoff from Khartoum-Sudan (a typical urbanized community that lies on the banks of the Nile-system) and its effect on the Nile water quality. In addition, the correlation of ...
  • 140-Estimating Assimilative Capacity of Kanhan River Using MIKE-11. 
    Sargaonkar, Abha P.; Kelkar, P. S.; Gupta, Apurba; Devotta, Sukumar; Mhaisalkar, Vasant A. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Rivers and streams are the important components of the biosphere as they serve dual purpose as a major resource for utilization and waste assimilation, River supports multitude of uses such as drinking, bathing, irrigation, ...
  • 141-Estimation of Dissolved Oxygen and Biochemical Oxygen Demand in River Hindon, India Using Dissolved Oxygen Balance Technique. 
    Sharma, M. K.; Jha, Ramakar; Choubey, V. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    River Hindon, a tributary of river Yamuna, India receives waste-water from municipal and industrial areas of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and Ghaziabad regions without prior treatment. Further, the river also receives non-point ...
  • 142-Modelling of Dissolved Oxygen Behaviour in Fast Moving Shallow Hilly Streams. 
    Singh, R. P.; Barman, M.; Ojha, C. S. P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Surface water is highly susceptible to contamination with ever growing urbanization and industrialization worldwide. A variety of wastewaters are discharged into streams/rivers leading to depletion of Dissolved Oxygen (DO) ...
  • 143-Hybrid-Cells-in-Series Model Incorporating Adsorption for Solute Transport in a Stream. 
    Ghosh, N. C.; Mishra, G. C. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Most trace elements and many anthropogenic organic compounds are known to associate with sediments. Adsorption and de sorption take place under non-equilibrium conditions. Coupling the non-equilibrium adsorption kinetics ...
  • 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 ...
  • Developing Operation Procedures for Individual Reservoirs in a Large Multistate River Basin in Context of Tribunal Awards 
    Goel, M. K.; Jain, Sharad K.; Rani, Deepti; Subrahmanyam, G. V.; Visweswararao, M. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2020)
    The uncertain nature of monsoon and the high temporal and spatial variability of rainfall in India make it imperative to utilize the available water resources optimally and efficiently. Reservoirs are one of the most ...
  • 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 ...