Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes Quantity, Quality, and Security

Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security presents a study for the mitigation of hydrological extremes through case studies. The focus is on the effect of extremes on water quality and the fate of geogenic, microbial, anthropogenic pollutants in the water cycle, and the interaction of water quality and quantity variations. The book integrates rapidly growing diverse topics, such as co-occurrence variation in water quantity and quality, water supply, sanitation, and hygiene. Stakeholders? participation and raising awareness for sustainable management strategies for hydrological extremes and water management systems is also covered.

This thorough guide serves as a pillar to postgraduate students and researchers as it?s centered on discovering remediation and natural attenuation of hydrological extremes with a special emphasis on present and future challenges.

A. Present and historical approach (Geographical)
a. How much is too much or too little? Decadal climatic variation in 21st century.
b. Spatio-Temporal variation in the water cycle: case studies of different geographical locations.
c. Effects of anthropogenic imprints on the water sustainability and hydrological extreme events.
d. Adaptability, vulnerability, and immediate challenges of water management system.

B. Climate Extremes: Dimensions and Detection
a. Statistical variability of precipitation and the detection approaches.
b. Planning of water supply systems: Role of climatic extremes.
c. Understanding the spatio-temporal influence of hydrological extremes.
d. Relationship of water supply, irrigation, and droughts: overview and synthesis.

C. Quality-Quantity Bridge
a. Climatic change, pollution, and pandemic in the context of hydrological extremes.
b. Water management challenges of climate extremes: Adaptive strategies and management options.
c. Flood-resilient water supply and sanitation systems: Global case-studies
d. A framework for floods-induced risk evaluation for water supply, sanitation, and hygiene.
e. The impacts of drought on the available water quality

D. Sustainability
a. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the context of hydrological extremes.
b. Stakeholders’ participation and groundwater management: Raising the Awareness.
c. Options and strategies for managing droughts: Case studies for agro-ecological regions.
d. Extremes and sustainability in agro-based economies: An emphasis on circular economy.

Durga Prasad Panday is a faculty at Sustainability Cluster, UPES. He is a post-graduate in Water Resources Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has twice qualified the GATE exam with 99 percentiles. He has published several research articles including journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings. His area of interest is Water resources modelling, Hydroclimatic extremes, Game-theoretic conflict resolution techniques, watershed management, water quality modelling and GIS. He has a teaching experience of 7 years. He is actively engaged in consultancy works in water resources and quality modelling.
Rachel Gomes is a Professor in Chemical and Environmental Engineering with research into intelligent resource use in process environments, with a particular focus on waste/water treatment, water reuse, and process manufacturing for emerging pollutants and pollutant-to-product opportunities. She is head of the Food, Water, Waste (FWW) Research Group and leads the University of Nottingham Interdisciplinary Research Cluster, Water Works. Prof. Rachel has a PhD from Imperial College London and received the Wellcome Trust Value in People Award and was one of the '100 women, 100 visions' celebrating women scientists and engineers. Prof. Rachel has several funding portfolios from Research Councils, Charities and Industry Prof. Rachel have expertise in process resilience, circular economy, wastewater treatment, process manufacture, analytics, and modelling. She has been recognized with an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)) for her services to research and to education in the 2022 Birthday Honors List.
Vivek Agarwal is currently employed as Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom. Before this, he pursued his PhD from the University of Nottingham in Geospatial Environment Engineering. His thesis title was “Study of groundwater properties and behavior using geospatial tools”, and he was awarded “the best Ph