Sustainable Water Management : Challenges, Technologies and Solutions

Contents: Preface. 1. Sustainable development of water resources/R.K. Khanna. 2. Water mismanagement and poor governance--time for change?/Rohan Saha and Sadapurna Mukherjee. 3. Relevance of virtual water in water resources management/Vijay K. Labhsetwar. 4. Groundwater studies in urban area of Lucknow City, U.P./R.A. Yadav and S. Sahai. 5. Raw water supply capacity evaluation from Wonorejo Reservoir to the water demand in Surabaya/Tri Budi Prayogo, Suwanto Marsudi and Widya Aprilia. 6. Water quality indices and statistical comparisons/P.K. Swamee, P.N. Rathie, R. Matsushita and E.Y. Nakano. 7. Reducing gap between demand and availability for groundwater management through a decision support tool in an overexploited watershed/Shakeel Ahmed, Benoit Dewandel and Jerome Perrin. 8. Groundwater resource availability and management options in drought prone state of Rajasthan, India/L.N. Mathur. 9. Creation of temporary structures across drainage line in degraded watersheds for production of turmeric in Kandhamala district of Orissa/C.R. Subudhi, B. Behera and K.N. Sharma. 10. Groundwater flow simulation modeling in the Hirakud Canal command using visual modflow/Sanjay Kumar Raul and Sudhindra Nath Panda. 11. Surface resistivity investigations for groundwater exploration, development and management in diverse hydrogeological terrain of Madhya Pradesh, India/Subhash C. Singh, H.S. Namdeo and A.K. Maurya. 12. EPE tools of UWWTP with discharge in coastal waters/Alexandre Freire. 13. The sustainable, real-time water enterprise/Garry Wong. 14. An integrated approach for restoration of a Leachate pond by using vegetation on supportive structures/Mait Kriipsalu. 15. Groundwater utilization in Kerala--a physiographic zone-wise scenario/M. Nazimuddin, K. Sadanandan, S. Sreevallabhan and E. Abdul Hameed. 16. Fluoride in groundwaters of Pavagada taluk, Tumkur district, Karnataka, India/T.S. Suresh. 17. Right to water: an inalienable fundamental right/Dhruv Sheoran and Rishika Singh. 18. Conserving groundwater resources--need for effective laws/Anand Shankar Jha and Rishi Thakur. 19. Right to access to water: a legal perspective/Sanjay Khan. 20. Access to water as a fundamental right percolating implementation for effective solution/Vipul Jain and Nisarg Desai. 21. Controlled subsurface recharge schemes to enhance groundwater storage in aquifers/A.K. Rastogi. 22. Troubled waters/Misha Sanghi and Amit Kavya. 23. Capability development and community welfare activities at five villages in Chaksu Tehsil of Jaipur district of Rajasthan/Sukh Pal Dhabhai, Rajesh Kumar, Manish Singh, Manjujhala and Pratibha Sharma. 24. Women in water sector--need for a revolution/R.K. Khanna. 25. Groundwater sustainability definition through risk assessment/Pradeep K. Majumdar. 26. Effect  of operating parameters on desalination by VMD/Sayed Mohammad Ali Safavi, Maryam Tavakol Moghadam, and Toraj Mohammadi. 27. Unsafe chromium and its environmental impact assessment/Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer. 28. Advanced technologies of groundwater exploration and management using geophysics and ground water modeling/Sanjay Rana. 29. The dimension of groundwater crisis with its management through structural measures--a national perspective/P.K. Gupta and A.P. Singh. Index.

"Sustainable Water Management : Challenges, Technologies and Solutions is an outcome of the First World Aqua Congress (28-30 November, 2007), organized by Aqua Foundation at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. This book follows a holistic perspective while addressing issues related to a vital resource such as water. Aspects focusing on major challenges in sustainable water management have been highlighted. Similarly, the role of traditional and contemporary modern technologies for sustainable water resource management has been analyzed in depth. Finally, the scope of solutions available with respect to sustainable water management has been discussed and critically evaluated.

Major themes discussed in this book include: water resources availability; water quality management; water recycling and rainwater harvesting tools, techniques and status report. While dealing with major challenges for sustainable water management, the focus lies on the demand and supply sides of this vital resource and problems related to different kinds of water pollution, water leakages, wastages, sanitation issues and overall poor water resource management. Water-related technologies are elaborately presented regarding water and waste-water treatment, recycling and re-use; purification, bottling and supply of drinking water; salinity management; software related to water-resources modelling and utility, mapping, etc. Various institutional, legal and policy aspects of sustainable water resources management have been covered in detail with focus on water rights; water pricing and distribution; municipal water supply management, and related issues at local, national and global levels. This book highlights the benefits of water re-use; water conservation; role of public participation and community awareness; water-resources development and capacity building for sustainable water management." (jacket)