Overview
- Provides an up-to-date overview of current aspects of water resources planning and management
- Focuses on climate change and global warming in India
- Presents helpful, practical data on siltation and scouring problems around hydraulic structures
- Includes valuable information for practitioners and researchers on hydropower as a nonpolluting and renewable source of energy
- Offers a unique fusion of water resources, environmentalism, and hydropower with helpful information for policy makers and field engineers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 75)
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Table of contents (44 papers)
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Water Resource Planning Management
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Climate Change & Global Warming
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About this book
This proceedings volume, with more than 30 chapters, is based on the presentations given at the National Conference on Water Resources and Hydropower (WRHP-2016) and represents the state-of-the-art in water resources in India. It includes experimental investigations, field studies, theoretical developments, numerical methods, as well as engineering achievements in water resources. The contributions are organised under four main topics:
• Water Resources and Management: covers the issues related to water resources planning and management, water conservation, flood mitigation, policies and governance, conflict over rivers and planning of groundwater evolution, Assessment of Sedimentation, Surface water quality, Rainfall assessment,
• Climate Change and Global Warming: includes chapters on the impact of climate on water resources and groundwater, hydrological impacts of climate change, Ground Water Contaminants, Assessment of Evaporation and evapotranspiration effects on global warming
• Hydraulic Structures: presents contributions on fluvial hydraulics,flow through Weirs, Open Channel flow, river flood control, scour and erosion, dam and dowstream block failures and protection, Losses in pipes
By combining these topics, the book provides a valuable resource for practitioners and researchers, including field engineers, academicians, planners, health specialists, disaster managers, decision makers and policy makers engaged in various aspects of water resources and hydropower. The WRHP-2016 was organised in association with the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttrakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited and the Indian Society for Hydraulics, Pune and was held in University of Petroleum and Energy Studies,Dehradun, India from June 17-18, 2016.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Vikas Garg is Professor & Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies in Dehradun, India. He received his B.E. in CiEngineering, and his M.Tech and Ph.D in Water Resources Engineering.
He is a recipient of the Indian Patent for developing “Multiple Collar Plates: A Composite scour Protection Device” in 2006. Recently, he received the G M. Nawathe Award for Best Research Paper by the Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) at CWPRS Pune. Earlier, he received the G M Nawathe Award from the Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) for the Best Research Paper in HYDRO – 2005. He has been honored with the Young Engineer Award by Institution of Engineers (India) in 2008. He has published 40 research papers in National Journals and from International and National Conferences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development of Water Resources in India
Editors: Vikas Garg, Vijay P. Singh, Vijay Raj
Series Title: Water Science and Technology Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55125-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55124-1Published: 30 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85574-5Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55125-8Published: 10 June 2017
Series ISSN: 0921-092X
Series E-ISSN: 1872-4663
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 537
Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations, 187 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water, general, Climate Change Management and Policy, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics