Geostatistics and Geospatial Technologies for Groundwater Resources in India

1. Front Matter

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2. Fundamentals of Geostatistics for Assessing Spatial Variation of Groundwater Resources

   • Priyabrata Santra, Partha Pratim Adhikary

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3. Recent Trends in GIS and Geostatistical Approaches to Analyze Groundwater Resource in India

   • Ch. Jyotiprava Dash, Partha Pratim Adhikary

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4. Concept of Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications in Groundwater Spatial Studies

   • Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit, Partha Pratim Adhikary

   Pages 41-57

5. Multi-criteria Decision-Making Approach Using Remote Sensing and GIS for Assessment of Groundwater Resources

   • Gour Dolui, Nirmalya Das, Santu Guchhait, Sayan Roy

   Pages 59-79

6. Hydrogeochemical Characterization of Groundwater Using Conventional Graphical, Geospatial and Multivariate Statistical Techniques

   • Balaji Etikala, Veeraswamy Golla, Narsimha Adimalla, Ramanaiah Surasura, Subbarao Marapatla

   Pages 81-96

7. Efficacy of Geospatial Technologies for Groundwater Prospect Zonation in Lower Western Ghats Area of Maharashtra, India

   • Sandipan Das, Ajay Kumar Kadam, Bhavana N. Umrikar, R. N. Sankhua, Abhay M. Varade, Mahesh Kalshetty et al.

   Pages 97-118

8. Identifying Suitable Sites for Rainwater Harvesting Structures Using Runoff Model (SCS-CN), Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Upper Kangsabati Watershed, West Bengal, India

   • Asish Saha, Manoranjan Ghosh, Subodh Chandra Pal

   Pages 119-150

9. Identification of Groundwater Potential Areas Using Geospatial Technologies: A Case Study of Kolkata, India

   • Sushobhan Majumdar, Uday Chatterjee, Pravat Kumar Shit, Gouri Sankar Bhunia

   Pages 151-166

10. Geospatial Assessment of Groundwater Potential Zone in Chennai Region, Tamil Nadu, India

    • K. S. Vignesh, P. Thambidurai, V. N. Indhiya Selvan

    Pages 167-191

11. Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones Using Multi-influencing Factors (MIF) Technique: A Geospatial Study on Purba Bardhaman District of India

    • Niladri Das, Prolay Mondal, Subhasish Sutradhar, Ranajit Ghosh

    Pages 193-213

12. Delineating the Status of Groundwater in a Plateau Fringe Region Using Multi-influencing Factor (MIF) and GIS: A Study of Bankura District, West Bengal, India

    • Avijit Mahala

    Pages 215-237

13. Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment of Chaka River Basin, Purulia, India Using GIS-Based DRASTIC Model

    • Amit Bera, Bhabani Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Swagata Biswas

    Pages 239-259

14. Assessment of Water Level Behaviour to Investigate the Hydrological Conditions of Bokaro District, Jharkhand, India Using GIS Technique

    • Poornima Verma, Prasoon Kumar Singh, Ashwani Kumar Tiwari

    Pages 261-282

15. Investigation of Lineaments for Identification of Deeper Aquifer Zones in Hard Rock Terrain: A Case Study of WRWB-2 Watershed from Nagpur District, Central India

    • Abhay M. Varade, Y. D. Khare, Mukesh Sakhare, Sandipan Das, Atul Doad, Uday Chatterjee et al.

    Pages 283-298

16. Assessing Contamination of Groundwater with Fluoride and Human Health Impact

    • Somnath Rudra

    Pages 299-322

17. Primary Concept of Arsenic Toxicity: An Overview

    • Surjyo Jyoti Biswas, Monoj Patra, Santosh Kumar Giri, Sanjib Gorain, Dinesh Gope, Nimai Chandra Saha et al.

    Pages 323-341

18. Evaluation of Ground Water Quality by Use of Water Quality Index in the Vicinity of the Rajaji National Park Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India

    • Gagan Matta, Avinash Kumar, Piyush Kumar, Anjali Nayak, Pawan Kumar, Amit Kumar et al.

    Pages 343-356

19. Assessment of Groundwater Resource Pollution in Kangsabati River Basin, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India

    • Avijit Kar, Deep Sankar Chini, Bidhan Chandra Patra, Manojit Bhattacharya

    Pages 357-370

20. Effect of Conventional Sand Mining Along Heavy Mineral Beach Placers and Its Environmental Impact

    • Samikshya Mohanty, Nimesh Kotadia, Debashish Sengupta

    Pages 371-384

This book offers essential information on geospatial technologies for water resource management and highlights the latest GIS and geostatistics techniques as they relate to groundwater.

Groundwater is inarguably India's single most important natural resource. It is the foundation of millions of Indian farmers' livelihood security and the primary source of drinking water for a vast majority of Indians in rural and urban areas. The prospects of continued high rates of growth in the Indian economy will, to a great extent, depend on how judiciously we can manage groundwater in the years to come.

Over the past three decades, India has emerged as by far the single largest consumer of groundwater in the world. Though groundwater has made the country self-sufficient in terms of food, we face a crisis of dwindling water tables and declining water quality. Deep drilling by tube wells, which was once part of the solution to water shortages, is now in danger of becoming part of the problem. Consequently, we urgently need to focus our efforts on the sustainable and equitable management of groundwater. Addressing that need, this book presents novel advances in and applications of RS–GIS and geostatistical techniques to the research community in a precise and straightforward manner.

• Remote Sensing & GIS
• Agricultural Water Management
• Groundwater Contamination
• Groundwater Quality and Pollution Assessment
• Fluoride Contamination
• Arsenic Contamination
• hydrogeology
• water quality and water pollution

• Indian Institute of Water Management, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Bhubaneswar, India

  Partha Pratim Adhikary

• Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Vidyasagar University, Medinipur, India

  Pravat Kumar Shit

• Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Jodhpur, India

  Priyabrata Santra

• Randstad India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India

  Gouri Sankar Bhunia

• School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

  Ashwani Kumar Tiwari

• Department of Geophysics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India

  B. S. Chaudhary

Dr. Partha Pratim Adhikary, presently Senior Scientist (Soil Physics and Soil and Water Conservation), has been working at ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (IISWC), Research Center, Sunabeda, Koraput (Odisha), India. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKVV), Mohanpur, West Bengal; Master’s degree in Soil Science from Chaudhury Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU), Hisar, Haryana, and Ph.D. in Agricultural Physics from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India. Dr. Adhikary has more than 100 publications in journals of national and international repute, edited books, book chapters, popular articles, technology brochures, technical reports and bulletins.

Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit, Assistant Professor, has been working in the Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Gope Palace, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. He received his Ph.D.in Geography (Applied Geomorphology) from Vidyasagar University (India) in 2013, M.Sc. in Geography and Environment Management from Vidyasagar University in 2005 and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University in 2015. His main fields of research are soil erosion spatial modelling, water resources and natural resources mapping and modelling, and he published more than 45 international and national research articles in various renowned journals. He published three (03) books.  Dr. Shit is Associate Editor and on the editorial boards of three international journal in geography and earth environment science.

Dr. Priyabrata Santra, Principal Scientist (Soil Physics/Soil & Water Conservation), has been working in Indian Council of Agricultural Research at Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI) since 2003. He obtained his Master’s degree in Agricultural Physics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, in 2001, and Ph.D. in Soil Physics/Hydrology in 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He published 50 research papers in reputed international journals and one edited book and one research bulletin.

Gouri Sankar Bhunia received a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, India, in 2015. His Ph.D. dissertation work focused on environmental control measures of infectious disease using geospatial technology. His research interests include environmental modelling, risk assessment, natural resources mapping and modelling, data mining and information retrieval using geospatial technology. Dr. Bhunia is Associate Editor and on the editorial boards of three international journal in Health GIS and Geosciences. Dr. Bhunia has published more than 50 articles in various journals in Scopus indexed.

Ashwani Kumar Tiwari is working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His teaching and research areas are water resources management and GIS, hydro-geochemistry, pollution of water resources by geogenic and anthropogenic activities, groundwater-seawater interaction and aquifer vulnerability. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy for around four years. He has completed his M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Environmental Science. He was awarded Erasmus Mundus and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Scholarships. He has published several research articles in various reputed international and national journals. He has published an Edited Book “Applied Geology: Approaches to Future Resource Management” in Springer Chem with late Prof. De Maio in July 2020. His works on respective fields are very well appreciated by the many workers across the world. He has served as a Reviewer for many international journals.

Prof. (Dr.) B. S. Chaudhary is working as Chairman, Department of Geophysics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India,since December 23, 2017. Prof. Chaudhary was awarded DAAD (German Academic Exchange Services) fellowship at the University of Freiburg, Germany from 1997 to 1999 and worked on applications of Indian Remote Sensing Satellite data usage for various aspects in Black Forest region, Germany.  He was awarded Ph.D. on “Integrated Land And Water Resources Management in Southern Part of Haryana, India Using Remote Sensing And GIS” in the year 2003. He is working in the domain of remote sensing and GIS applications for natural resources mapping and management, specializing in water resources, geo-environmental studies and disaster management for last more than 28 years.  He has supervised 7 Ph.D.s in the domain of groundwater, snowmelt runoff, snowpack characterization, watershed conservation and management. He has more than 80 publications in various national/international journals and conference proceedings. He is also an editorial team member of an edited book on “Applications andChallenges of Geospatial Technology: Potential and Future Trends” from Springer Publishers (published on November 25, 2018) along with other co-editors. 

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