Sustainable water resources management
By: edited by Chandra S.P. Ojha, Rao Y. Surampalli, András Bárdossy, Tian C. Zhang, Chih-Ming Kao ; sponsored by Sustainable Water Resources Management Task Committee of the Environmental Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Contributors: Environmental Council (Environmental and Water Resources Institute). Sustainabale Water Resources Management Task Committee
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Reston, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1023
ISBN-13: 9780784480908; 9780784414767
Subjects: Watershed management; Water resources development; Bassins hydrographiques; Gestion; Ressources en eau; Exploitation; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Real Estate; General
Description: Sustainable Water Resources Managementpresents the most current thinking on the environmental, social, and political dimensions of sustainably managing the water supply at local, regional, or basin levels.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Sustainable Water Resource Management: An Introduction; title: Chapter 2 Surface Water Data Collection and Processing; title: Chapter 3 Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Watershed Management: An Overview; title: Chapter 4 Conceptual and Physically Based Hydrological Modeling; title: Chapter 5 Fuzzy Logic in Multi-Objective Decision Making and Hydrological Modelling; title: Chapter 6 Machine Learning Algorithms and Their Application in Water Resources Management; title: Chapter 7 Decomposition-Coordination Approach for Study of a Large Water Resource System; title: Chapter 8 Space-Borne Rainfall Measurement over Arid Regions; title: Chapter 9 Cloud Seeding Studies for Obtaining Atmospheric Water Resources; title: Chapter 10 Geospatial Technologies for Rainfall and Atmospheric Water Vapor Measurement over Arid Regions of India; title: Chapter 11 Climate Change Pattern and its Effect on Hydrologic Cycle: A Review; title: Chapter 12 The Integrated Impact of Basin Characteristics on Changes in Hydrological Variables; title: Chapter 13 Quantifying Surface Water Supplies under Changing Climate and Land Use; title: Chapter 14 A Framework for Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater System Formations; title: Chapter 15 Aquifer Mapping and Sustainable Development; title: Chapter 16 Model-Assisted Planning of Groundwater Development; title: Chapter 17 Groundwater Sustainability in Fractured Rock Aquifers; title: Chapter 18 Groundwater Remediation; title: Chapter 19 Urban Water Management; title: Chapter 20 Water Sustainable Urban Designs; title: Chapter 21 Effects of Urbanization on Surface and Subsurface Hydrologic Variables of Upper Bhima River Basin, Maharashtra, India; title: Chapter 22 Integrated Management of Water Supply for Large Cities; title: Chapter 23 Managing a Water Supply Portfolio Using Groundwater Recharge and Extraction for a Southern California System; title: Chapter 24 Assessment of Surface Storage Requirement for Mitigating Drought; title: Chapter 25 Using Floodwater for Artificial Recharge and Spate Irrigation; title: Chapter 26 Optimal Use of Irrigation Water; title: Chapter 27 Watershed Approach for Controlling Erosion and Non-Point Sources Pollutants to Water Bodies; title: Chapter 28 Water Reuse: Criteria, Treatment, and Quality; title: Chapter 29 Integrated Water Resources Management of Ken-Betwa Link; title: Chapter 30 Development of Water Resources Management Plans in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan; title: Chapter 31 Water Resources Policy Development Using Hydrologic and Systems Dynamics Modeling: A Case Study for East Africa; title: Chapter 32 Environmental, Social, and Political Issues in Water Resources Management; title: Chapter 33 Assessment of Water Sustainability through Reliability-Resilience-Vulnerability Concept using Reconnaissance Drought Index.