Water Resources and Environmental Engineering II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. A Detailed Statistical Analysis of Rainfall of Thoothukudi District in Tamil Nadu (India)

   • Sathyanathan Rangarajan, Deeptha Thattai, Abhishek Cherukuri, Tanmoy Akash Borah, Joel Kuncheria Joseph, Arun Subbiah

   Pages 1-14

3. Rainfall Projection in Yamuna River Basin, India, Using Statistical Downscaling

   • Siddharth Chaudhary, A. Agarwal, Tai Nakamura

   Pages 15-23

4. Rainfall Trend Analysis Using Nonparametric Test: A Case Study of Malegaon City

   • Preeti Ramkar, S. M. Yadav

   Pages 25-33

5. Statistical Analysis of Long-Term Temporal Trends of Temperature During 1901–2002 at Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu (India)

   • Sathyanathan Rangarajan, Deeptha Thattai, Utkarsh Jaiswal, Nikhil Chaurasia

   Pages 35-45

6. Evaluation of Different Solar Radiation Estimation Methods for Indian Locations

   • Sirisha Adamala, Y. V. Krishna Reddy

   Pages 47-56

7. Assessment of Changes in Wetland Storage in Gurupura River Basin of Karnataka, India, Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

   • Subrahmanya Kundapura, Renuka Kommoju, Irshan Verma

   Pages 57-68

8. Multivariate Statistical Analysis of River Water Quality—A Study on River Godavari in Andhra Pradesh

   • G. V. R. Srinivasa Rao, M. Rajesh Kumar, T. P. Sreejani, P. V. R. Sravya

   Pages 69-77

9. A Study on Seasonal Variation of the Groundwater Chemistry in Andhra University Campus, Visakhapatnam

   • G. V. R. Srinivasa Rao, Y. Abbulu, T. P. Sreejani, S. Priyanka

   Pages 79-90

10. Evaluation of Biogas Production Potential by Anaerobic Co-digestion with Substrate Mixture of Fruit Waste, Lawn Grass, and Manures

    • Atul Navnath Muske, P. Venkateswara Rao

    Pages 91-99

11. Ceramic Membrane: Synthesis and Application for Wastewater Treatment—A Review

    • D. Vasanth, A. D. Prasad

    Pages 101-106

12. A Brief Study of the January 28, 2017, Chennai Oil Spill

    • Deeptha Thattai, Sathyanathan Rangarajan, Abhishek Senthil

    Pages 107-114

13. Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Water Quality of Godavari River at Polavaram for Irrigation Purposes

    • M. Rajesh Kumar, R. Vijay Kumar, T. P. Sreejani, P. V. R. Sravya, G. V. R. Srinivasa Rao

    Pages 115-124

14. Vermicomposting of Primary Clarified Tannery Sludge Employing Eisenia fetida

    • Rohan Kumar Choudhary, Ankita Swati, Subrata Hait

    Pages 125-135

15. Temperature-Phased Anaerobic Co-digestion of Food Waste and Rice Husk Using Response Surface Methodology

    • Smruti Ranjan Sahoo, P. Venkateswara Rao

    Pages 137-146

16. A Study on Effect of Water Temperature on the Seepage Pressure Under Subsurface Floor of a Barrage: A Case Study of Taraka Rama Tirtha Sagar Barrage, Vizianagaram

    • S. Chandramouli

    Pages 147-158

17. Review of Application of Systems Engineering Approaches in Development of Integrated Solid Waste Management for a Smart City

    • V. R. Sankar Cheela, Brajesh Dubey

    Pages 159-177

18. Unfolding Community Structure in Rainfall Network of Germany Using Complex Network-Based Approach

    • A. Agarwal, N. Marwan, U. Ozturk, R. Maheswaran

    Pages 179-193

19. Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Wavelet-Based and Stand-alone Models in Capturing Non-stationarity in Climate Downscaling

    • Vinit Sehgal, Venkataramana Sridhar, Maheswaran Rathinasamy

    Pages 195-203

20. Back Matter

    Pages 205-206

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The second volume of this book is a compilation of the high-quality papers from the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (ETWREE 2017). Written by researchers and academicians from prestigious institutes across India, the contributions present various scenarios and discuss the challenges of climate change and its impact on the environment, water resources and industrial and socio-economic developments. The book is a valuable resource for scientists, faculties, policymakers, and stakeholders working in the field of climate and environment management to address the current global environmental challenges. 

• Hydrologic Modelling
• Rainwater Harvesting
• Climate Change
• Water Resources
• Environmental Engineering
• ETWREE 2017
• Water Quality Index
• climate change impacts
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

• Department of Civil Engineering, Maharaj Vijayaram Gajapathi Raj College, Vizianagaram, India

  Maheswaran Rathinasamy, S. Chandramouli

• Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

  K.B.V.N. Phanindra

• Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal, India

  Uma Mahesh

R. Maheswaran is currently associated with the Department of Civil Engineering at MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram. He completed his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2012.  He is the recipient of  Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany and Inspire Faculty Award, GoI. His areas of interest include stochastic hydrology, hydrological modeling, scaling concepts, application of wavelet analysis in understanding the hydrologic system and hydrologic forecasting. He has guided 4 M.Tech. and 30 B.Tech. students, and has published over 25 journal papers, 18 conference papers. 

S. Chandramouli has been engaged in the academic field since August 2002, and is an expert on water resources engineering with a special interest in optimization techniques. His areas of interest include water resources systems planning and management, analysis and design of pipe networks, design of pumps and turbines, design of storm water drainage system, applications of ANN, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms in water resources engineering. He completed his Ph.D. at Andhra University in 2013. He has over 15 years of teaching experience and also guided one Ph.D student and 2 M.Tech students and currently guiding four M.Tech students. He is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, MVGRCE, Vizianagaram. He has published 16 journal papers, and over 15 conference papers (national and international).

K.B.V.N. Phanindra is Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He completed his PhD. from New Mexico State University, USA (2010) in Water Resource Engineering and M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur (2002) in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering. Previously, he has also worked in Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani. His area of research interests is in Groundwater flow and transport modeling, RS & GIS applications in waterresources, Hydro-geologic characterization, Soil-Water-Crop interactions and Eco-hydrological processes. He has published many papers in international journals and conferences in these areas.

Umamahesh N.V. is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. His areas of interest include water resources systems, hydrologic modeling, irrigation management, water quality modeling and management, applications of soft computing techniques, and modeling impacts of climate change. He has published 20 journal papers and 50 conference papers. He has supervised 6 Ph.D. students and is currently guiding 7 Ph.D. students.

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