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1. Recharge and Geochemical Evolution of Groundwater in Fractured Basement Aquifers (NW India): Insights from Environmental Isotopes (δ18O, δ2H, and 3H) and Hydrogeochemical Studies

Author:
Rudra Mohan Pradhan; Ajit Kumar Behera; Sudhir Kumar; Pankaj Kumar; Tapas Kumar Biswal
Source:
Water 2022 v.14 no.3 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
aquifers; basins; calcium; chemical composition; decision making; evaporation; groundwater; groundwater flow; groundwater recharge; hydrogeochemistry; rain; silicates; socioeconomic development; tritium; water management; India
Abstract:
... Considering water as a limiting factor for socio-economic development, especially in arid/semi-arid regions, both scientific communities and policymakers are interested in groundwater recharge-related data. India is fast moving toward a crisis of groundwater due to intense abstraction and contamination. There is a lack of understanding regarding the occurrence, movement, and behaviors of groundwat ...
DOI:
10.3390/w14030315

2. Vulnerability and Risk Assessment to Climate Change in Sagar Island, India

Author:
Aparna Bera; Gowhar Meraj; Shruti Kanga; Majid Farooq; Suraj Kumar Singh; Netrananda Sahu; Pankaj Kumar
Source:
Water 2022 v.14 no.5 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
climate; climate change; decision making; estuaries; geostatistics; livelihood; people; risk; risk assessment; storms; variance; water; India
Abstract:
... Inhabitants of low-lying islands face increased threats due to climate change as a result of their higher exposure and lesser adaptive capacity. Sagar Island, the largest inhabited estuarine island of Sundarbans, is experiencing severe coastal erosion, frequent cyclones, flooding, storm surges, and breaching of embankments, resulting in land, livelihood, and property loss, and the displacement of ...
DOI:
10.3390/w14050823

3. Barriers in Participative Water Governance: A Critical Analysis of Community Development Approaches

Author:
Raghav Shunglu; Sören Köpke; Lav Kanoi; Thushantha S. Nissanka; Chandana R. Withanachchi; Deepika U. Gamage; Hansani R. Dissanayake; Aysegul Kibaroglu; Olcay Ünver; Sisira S. Withanachchi
Source:
Water 2022 v.14 no.5 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
community service; decision making; governance; people; qualitative analysis; water; water management; India; Sri Lanka
Abstract:
... Participatory approaches within development programs involving common-pool resources are intended to revive a community’s role in managing these resources. Certainly, to ensure the successful and equitable use of such resources, community participation is essential. However, in many cases, attempts at applying a participatory approach often fail to genuinely engage all subgroups within a community ...
DOI:
10.3390/w14050762

4. The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World’s Rivers: An Overview

Author:
Maria João Feio; Robert M. Hughes; Marcos Callisto; Susan J. Nichols; Oghenekaro N. Odume; Bernardo R. Quintella; Mathias Kuemmerlen; Francisca C. Aguiar; Salomé F.P. Almeida; Perla Alonso-EguíaLis; Francis O. Arimoro; Fiona J. Dyer; Jon S. Harding; Sukhwan Jang; Philip R. Kaufmann; Samhee Lee; Jianhua Li; Diego R. Macedo; Ana Mendes; Norman Mercado-Silva; Wendy Monk; Keigo Nakamura; George G. Ndiritu; Ralph Ogden; Michael Peat; Trefor B. Reynoldson; Blanca Rios-Touma; Pedro Segurado; Adam G. Yates
Source:
Water 2021 v.13 no.3 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
European Union; Japan; Singapore; biodiversity; biological assessment; citizen science; decision making; ecosystems; environmental DNA; environmental monitoring; fauna; fish; flora; life history; riparian vegetation; rivers; stakeholders; surface water; water quality; watersheds; Australia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Eastern Africa; Europe; Gambia; India; Malaysia; Mexico; New Zealand; Northern European region; South Africa; South Korea; Thailand; Vietnam
Abstract:
... The biological assessment of rivers i.e., their assessment through use of aquatic assemblages, integrates the effects of multiple-stressors on these systems over time and is essential to evaluate ecosystem condition and establish recovery measures. It has been undertaken in many countries since the 1990s, but not globally. And where national or multi-national monitoring networks have gathered larg ...
DOI:
10.3390/w13030371

5. A Water Quality Appraisal of Some Existing and Potential Riverbank Filtration Sites in India

Author:
Cornelius Sandhu; Thomas Grischek; Hilmar Börnick; Jörg Feller; Saroj Kumar Sharma
Source:
Water 2019 v.11 no.2 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
World Health Organization; decision making; dissolved organic carbon; drinking water; filtration; human health; ions; issues and policy; monsoon season; planning; pollutants; riparian areas; rivers; screening; surface water; trace elements; water quality; water supply; India
Abstract:
... There is a nationwide need among policy and decision makers and drinking water supply engineers in India to obtain an initial assessment of water quality parameters for the selection and subsequent development of new riverbank filtration (RBF) sites. Consequently, a snapshot screening of organic and inorganic water quality parameters, including major ions, inorganic trace elements, dissolved organ ...
DOI:
10.3390/w11020215

6. Gender Perspective in Water Management: The Involvement of Women in Participatory Water Institutions of Eastern India

Author:
Varsha Khandker; Vasant P. Gandhi; Nicky Johnson
Source:
Water 2020 v.12 no.1 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
decision making; farms; gender; households; irrigation; men; paper; research; surveys; water; water management; water users associations; women; India
Abstract:
... The paper examines the extent, nature, and factors affecting women’s involvement in participatory irrigation institutions of eastern India. Effective participatory water institutions are urgently needed to improve water management in eastern India, and a significant aspect of this is the involvement of women. There is inadequate representation, participation, and involvement of women in most water ...
DOI:
10.3390/w12010196

7. Contesting Hydropower Dams in the Eastern Himalaya: The Cultural Politics of Identity, Territory and Self-Governance Institutions in Sikkim, India

Author:
Rinchu Doma Dukpa; Deepa Joshi; Rutgerd Boelens
Source:
Water 2019 v.11 no.3 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
collective action; dams (hydrology); decision making; exercise; politics; risk; territoriality; water power; Himalayan region; India
Abstract:
... In India’s Eastern Himalayan State of Sikkim, the indigenous Bhutia communities, Lachungpas and Lachenpas, successfully contested all proposed hydropower projects and have managed to sustain an anti-dam opposition in their home regions, Lachung and Lachen. In this paper, we discuss this remarkable, un-researched, effective collective action against hydropower development, examining how ident ...
DOI:
10.3390/w11030412

8. Effect of Land Use Changes on Water Quality in an Ephemeral Coastal Plain: Khambhat City, Gujarat, India

Author:
Pankaj Kumar; Rajarshi Dasgupta; Brian Alan Johnson; Chitresh Saraswat; Mrittika Basu; Mohamed Kefi; Binaya Kumar Mishra
Source:
Water 2019 v.11 no.4 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
agricultural land; chlorides; coastal plains; decision making; drinking water; fertilizer application; groundwater; human settlements; industrial wastes; issues and policy; lakes; land use and land cover maps; land use change; marshes; nitrates; rivers; statistics; water quality; wells; India
Abstract:
... Rapid changes in land use and land cover pattern have exerted an irreversible change on different natural resources, and water resources in particular, throughout the world. Khambhat City, located in the Western coastal plain of India, is witnessing a rapid expansion of human settlements, as well as agricultural and industrial activities. This development has led to a massive increase in groundwat ...
DOI:
10.3390/w11040724

9. Ranking of Storm Water Harvesting Sites Using Heuristic and Non-Heuristic Weighing Approaches

Author:
Shray Pathak; Chandra Shekhar Prasad Ojha; Chris Zevenbergen; Rahul Dev Garg
Source:
Water 2017 v.9 no.9 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
climate change; decision making; entropy; expert opinion; freshwater; geographic information systems; land use change; principal component analysis; screening; socioeconomics; stormwater; urban areas; water harvesting; water resources; watersheds; Australia; India
Abstract:
... Conservation of water is essential as climate change coupled with land use changes influence the distribution of water availability. Stormwater harvesting (SWH) is a widely used conservation measure, which reduces pressure on fresh water resources. However, determining the availability of stormwater and identifying the suitable sites for SWH require consideration of various socio-economic and tech ...
DOI:
10.3390/w9090710

10. Case Study: A Real-Time Flood Forecasting System with Predictive Uncertainty Estimation for the Godavari River, India

Author:
Silvia Barbetta; Gabriele Coccia; Tommaso Moramarco; Ezio Todini
Source:
Water 2016 v.8 no.10 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
Bayesian theory; case studies; data collection; decision making; deterministic models; monsoon season; prediction; rivers; standard deviation; uncertainty; watersheds; India
Abstract:
... This work presents the application of the multi-temporal approach of the Model Conditional Processor (MCP-MT) for predictive uncertainty (PU) estimation in the Godavari River basin, India. MCP-MT is developed for making probabilistic Bayesian decision. It is the most appropriate approach if the uncertainty of future outcomes is to be considered. It yields the best predictive density of future even ...
DOI:
10.3390/w8100463