Ground Water Development - Issues and Sustainable Solutions

✍ Scribed by S. P. Sinha Ray

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ground water resources are receiving global attention, as human population growth and development cause significant changes to the earth system. It plays a major role in ensuring livelihood security in many parts of South Asia and its contribution to poverty alleviation is substantial. The complex nature of ground water problems in the Indian Sub-continent requires a precise delineation of the ground water regimes in different hydro geological settings and socio-economic conditions and is a primary necessity for sustainable and equitable management. Strategies to respond to ground water over-exploitation and deteriorating water quality must be based on a new approach. Practical policies and various solution options urgently need to be formulated and implemented to prevent the development problems.

There is pressing need to evolve workable methods and approaches based on modern scientific researches on ground water resources, as well as to build a social framework including community participation at all levels for a ground water development system. The community participation in water pumping policies, incentives of efficient use, affordability of low income users and other vulnerable groups, water awareness are prime factors for success of any ground water based water supply project.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Major Ground Water Development Issues in South Asia: An Overview (S. P. Sinha Ray, Abhijit Ray)....Pages 3-11
Front Matter ....Pages 13-13
Water Management in Arid and Semiarid Areas of India (Subhajyoti Das)....Pages 15-33
Frontiers of Hard Rock Hydrogeology in India (Subhajyoti Das)....Pages 35-68
Characterization of a Deep Saline Aquifer Using Oil Exploration Data in an Arid Region of Rajasthan, India (Ranjan Sinha, Ashok Kumar)....Pages 69-83
Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Hard Rock Aquifers of South Andaman and Rutland Islands, India (Amlanjyoti Kar)....Pages 85-105
Front Matter ....Pages 107-107
Groundwater Management in Alluvial, Coastal and Hilly Areas (M. Thirumurugan, L. Elango, M. Senthilkumar, S. Sathish, L. Kalpana)....Pages 109-119
Findings of Large Groundwater Development Potential in Deeper Aquifers in Karnaphuli–Feni Interfluve, Chittagong, Bangladesh: A New Scientific Initiative (Ranajit Saha)....Pages 121-145
Sustainable Water Resource Management in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India. (Sugata Hazra, Tuhin Bhadra, S. P. Sinha Ray)....Pages 147-157
Front Matter ....Pages 159-159
Conservation of Water: Artificial Recharge to Groundwater (D. K. Chadha)....Pages 161-174
Interrelationship Between Surface and Groundwater: The Case of West Bengal (Kalyan Rudra)....Pages 175-181
Integrated Watershed Management and Groundwater Recharging: Initiatives of Centre for Ground Water Studies – A Public-Private Partnership Endeavour (S. N. Lahiri, S. P. Sinha Ray)....Pages 183-194
Front Matter ....Pages 195-195
Application of Modern Geophysical Techniques for Identification of Groundwater Potential Areas (Bimalendu B. Bhattacharya)....Pages 197-209
Role of Remote Sensing and GIS in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) (S. K. Sharma)....Pages 211-227
Isotope Hydrology (U. K. Sinha, K. Tirumalesh, Hemant V. Mohokar)....Pages 229-264
Front Matter ....Pages 265-265
Arsenic and Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater: Mitigation Strategies (K. J. Nath)....Pages 267-278
Community-Based Defluoridation of Groundwater by Electrocoagulation Followed by Activated Alumina Adsorption (Arindam Haldar, Banhita Pal, Anirban Gupta)....Pages 279-288
Variation of Arsenic Accumulation in Paddy Plant with Special Reference to Rice Grain and Its Additional Entry During Post-harvesting Technology (Nilanjana Roy Chowdhury, Madhurima Joardar, Soma Ghosh, Subhojit Bhowmick, Tarit Roychowdhury)....Pages 289-303
Arsenic Menace in West Bengal (India) and Its Mitigation Through Toolbox Intervention: An Experience to Share (Tanay Kumar Das)....Pages 305-314
Front Matter ....Pages 315-315
Participatory Groundwater Management in the Flood Plains of North Bihar: Preliminary Results of Arsenic Distribution (Siddharth Patil, Eklavya Prasad, Himanshu Kulkarni, Sarang Kulkarni)....Pages 317-328
Spring Protection and Management: Some Case Histories from Across India’s Mountainous Regions (Jared Buono, Sunesh Sharma, Anil Kumar, Kaustubh Mahamuni, Bhupal Bisht, Sivakumar Adiraju et al.)....Pages 329-337
Front Matter ....Pages 339-339
Ground Water Development and Sustainable Solutions (S. P. Sinha Ray)....Pages 341-349

✦ Subjects

Environment; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Natural Resources; Sustainable Development; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Hydrology/Water Resources