Water-Quality Hydrology

✍ Scribed by D. A. Barry, K. Bajracharya (auth.), Vijay P. Singh, Bhishm Kumar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Water Science and Technology Library 16
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization. Planning and management of water resources and its optimal use are a matter of urgency for most countries of the world, and even more so for India with a huge population. Growing population and expanding economic activities exert increasing demands on water for varied needs--domestic, industrial, agricultural, power generation, navigation, recreation, etc. In India, agriculture is the highest user of water. The past three decades have witnessed numerous advances as well as have presented intriguing challenges and exciting opportunities in hydrology and water resources. Compounding them has been the growing environmental consciousness. Nowhere are these challenges more apparent than in India. As we approach the twenty­ first century, it is entirely fitting to take stock of what has been accomplished and what remains to be accomplished, and what accomplishments are relevant, with particular reference to Indian conditions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nonlinear Reactive Solute Transport: A Practical and Fast Solution Method....Pages 3-17
Heavy Metal Adsorption in Soil: Comparison of Bisolute Adsorption Models and Laboratory Experiments....Pages 19-26
Fast Prediction of Runoff Removal of Chemical Pollutants Uniformly Dispersed in a Drainage Basin....Pages 27-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
An Integrated Approach to Observe the Evolution of Pollutants in Reservoirs....Pages 43-55
Impact of Agriculture on Nutrient Contamination of Water Resources....Pages 57-79
Nutrient runoff modelling of an Australian urban catchment....Pages 81-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
A Framework for Modeling Sediment Processes in Upland Watersheds....Pages 93-111
Application of Linear System Models for Estimation of Wash Load....Pages 113-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Recent Advances in Modelling Vadose Zone Transport....Pages 127-151
A Perspective on Time-Continuous Space-Discretized Solutions of Convection-Dispersion Equation in Variably Saturated Porous Media....Pages 153-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Use of Tracers and Dyes to Assess Ground Water Contamination Potential for Glacial Till Aquifers....Pages 177-186
Control of Sea Water Intrusion through Battery of Injection Wells....Pages 187-196
Application of Monte Carlo Analysis to Saturated Subsurface Contamination Modelling....Pages 197-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Water Quality Models for Watershed Management....Pages 217-241
Assessment of Uncertainty in Non — Point Source Water Quality Models....Pages 243-264
Environmental Aspects of Subsurface Drainage Projects....Pages 265-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-288

✦ Subjects

Hydrogeology; Terrestrial Pollution; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry