Sustainable Development of Water Resources in Northeast India
Contents: Preface. 1. Sustainable water management in Northeast India with special reference to Barak Valley: some emerging issues and concerns/Shib Ranjan Misra. 2. Integrated water resources management: a Northeast India perspective/Abhik Gupta. 3. Climate change and water resource management in Northeast India/G.D. Sharma. 4. An overview of the ecology of some streams and rivers of Northeast India/Tapati Das and Abhik Gupta. 5. Management of water resources of Barak Valley for sustainable economic development/Niranjan Roy and Suparna Roy. 6. Sustainable water management in the oxbow lakes of Assam with special reference to Cachar district, Assam, Northeast India/Kankana Das and Susmita Gupta. 7. Hydrobiology of Salganga river, Cachar, Assam/Hafsa Sultana Laskar and Susmita Gupta. 8. Rainwater harvesting for sustainable agriculture in Barak Valley/Mithra Dey and Nikhil Bhusan Dey. 9. Problem of drinking water in Cachar district, Assam/Pranay Jyoti Goswami. 10. Water resource potential of the Pakai Beel, Cachar, Assam/Bimal Sinha. 11. Local people\'s attitude towards the Barak river, Assam/Anuradha Singha and Ananta Pegu. 12. Big dams - bigger threats/Parthankar Choudhury, Pijush Kanti Das and Projit Kumar Palit. 13. Barak dam: an overview/Bhaskar Singha. Bibliography. Appendix. Index.
Northeast India is endowed with abundant water resources and is the wettest place on earth. Two mighty rivers, innumerable tributaries, streams and rivulets, water falls, and wetlands, natural lakes and oxbows are among its precious aqua wealth. The rainfall in monsoons is high, and recurrent flood in rainy seasons is a perennial problem, but there is scarcity of water for irrigating the agricultural fields and providing drinking water to the people in other seasons. The global warming and threats of climate change are already observed in the region. Sensitization of the people about environmental and anthropogenic facts behind floods, droughts and scarcity of water and sustainable development of water resources of the region by involving the people and utilizing indigenous knowledge and technology at the same time, seem to be the urgent needs. The sustainable development of the water resource is the thrust of the book which emerges from an interdisciplinary symposium organized by the Assam University in collaboration with institute of northeast India studies at Silchar in March 2010. (jacket)
Northeast India is endowed with abundant water resources and is the wettest place on earth. Two mighty rivers, innumerable tributaries, streams and rivulets, water falls, and wetlands, natural lakes and oxbows are among its precious aqua wealth. The rainfall in monsoons is high, and recurrent flood in rainy seasons is a perennial problem, but there is scarcity of water for irrigating the agricultural fields and providing drinking water to the people in other seasons. The global warming and threats of climate change are already observed in the region. Sensitization of the people about environmental and anthropogenic facts behind floods, droughts and scarcity of water and sustainable development of water resources of the region by involving the people and utilizing indigenous knowledge and technology at the same time, seem to be the urgent needs. The sustainable development of the water resource is the thrust of the book which emerges from an interdisciplinary symposium organized by the Assam University in collaboration with institute of northeast India studies at Silchar in March 2010. (jacket)
