Water Resources Planning and Management, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996 Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrology and Water Resources, New Delhi, India, December 1993 Water Science and Technology Library Series, Vol. 16

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.

Section 1: Water Resources Planning.- Integrated River Basin Planning and Development — Some Case Studies.- Conjunctive Irrigation in the Humid Alluvial Plains — Imperativeness and Issues.- Planning Considerations for Water Resources Development in Haor Areas of North-Eastern Bangladesh.- Optimal Irrigation Planning.- Local Level Planning of Small Water Resource Schemes in a Developing Country.- Section 2: Water Resources Development.- Large Scale Exploitation of Water Resources: Case of the Southeastern Anatolia Project in Turkey.- Rational Approach to Sustainable Water Resources Development of Nepal.- Section 3: Water-Resource System Operation and Management.- Modelling for Reservoir Operation for Irrigation.- Generalized Headworks Simulation Modelling: The Australian Experience.- Optimum Reservoir Systems Operations, Review of Stochastic Models.- An Optimization Model for Multipurpose Multi-Reservoir, Screening, with Explicit System Yield Reliability Consideration.- Optimal Operating Rule for Reservoir with Hydropower Generation and Irrigation.- Application of Stochastic Dynamic Programming for Reservoir Operation — A Case Study of Narmada Sagar Reservoir.- Irrigation Systems Management — Needs and Opportunities.- Irrigation System Performance: Concepts, Indicators, Standards and application.- Can Protective Irrigation be More Efficient?.- Section 4: Remote Sensing in Water Resources Investigations.- Potential of Remote Sensing in Applied Hydrology.- Remote Sensing as a Tool in Hydrology and Water Resources.- Application of Various Transformations for Land Use Classification in Digital Image Processing.- Relationship between Forest Cover and Drainage Density in a Typical Rainforest: An Investigation Using Satellite Data.- Utility of Remote Sensing Techniquesin Landslide Investigations: An Appraisal.- Section 5: Hydraulic Hazards and Their Control.- Hydrologic Safety and Rehabilitation of Old Dams.- Hydrological Design of Low Dams in Kandi Area (Mirzapur Dam).- Hydrologic Design of Cross Drainage Works on Kandi Canal.- Influence of Rainfalls on the Landslides Occurred in Basilicata (Italy) in 1973.- Section 6: Environmental Consequences of Water Resources Projects.- Environmental Impact Assessment of Artificial Reservoirs.- Physical and Biological Implications of Water Transfer: A Case Study of California.- Hydrological Impacts of the Pathakhali Konai Beel Project.