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| Title: | Recent advances in water sector |
| Authors: | Singh, R D |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Water is essential for sustaining life on Earth.
However, in view of the increasing demands for various competing sectors such
as urbanization, industrialization, growing population, and increasing living
standards, the finite freshwater resources are getting vulnerable to deficit in
terms of quantity and quality. Further, because of the high time and space
variability in rainfall in this country, optimum conservation and management of
the available water resources for different purposes is the need of the hour.
In the past few decades, the science of hydrology has made significant progress
in various dimensions. Hydrological instrumentation, data collection,
processing, storage and retrieval have been computerized to a considerable
extent. Spatial database provided through remote sensing satellites and spatial
analyses through Geographic Information System (GIS) are finding applications
in a number of modeling studies. Nuclear techniques are finding applications in
a number of hydrological applications related to identification of recharge areas,
groundwater seepage and its movement and identification of flow
components from different sources in a stream. Further,
Decision Support Systems (DSS) are being developed at the scale of river basins
which can help the decision makers in analyzing various scenarios for rational
surface and groundwater development and management without going deep into the
modeling intricacies. This paper discusses some of these recent developments in
various facets of hydrology and water resources. |
| Page(s): | 36-45 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-2412 (Online); 0771-7706 (Print) |
| Source: | BVAAP Vol.20(1) [June 2012]
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