Integrated Water Management (CE-803 (D)) - Important Questions

Explain the concepts of blue water, green water, and virtual water and discuss their significance in water management.

Discuss global and national perspectives of water crisis and water scarcity with examples.

Explain human-landscape interventions and the major water management issues and challenges.

Explain the meaning of water security in developing nations.

Explain measures to address water scarcity, the global water crisis scenario, water management problems and challenges in India, and factors controlling groundwater recharge and discharge.

What is a watershed and how is watershed topology explained in a river basin?

Reasons for the increasing pollution of water resources

Explain the different types of water scarcity in water management.

Write short notes on concepts of blue, green and virtual water, salient features of IWRM, minimum water table and minimum discharge, and rainwater harvesting.

Global water issues that warrant a paradigm shift using IWRM

Explain the principles of sustainable water management and their applications.

Explain the framework, strategies and preconditions for planning and developing a sustainable water future/supply.

Explain the concept of sustainable development and its importance in water resources management

What are the characteristics of sustainable water supply and sanitation systems?

Explain the importance of updated water policy.

Explain the important water policy approaches used in sustainable water resources management.

What is sustainable planning and what are its main features?

Explain how food security is perceived as a complex sustainable development issue

Write a short note on equity and equality in water management.

Explain best practices / lessons learned in river basin management approach.

Explain the principles (and components and objectives) behind the creation of Integrated Water Resources Management

Discuss the socio-scientific, economic, political, and ecological factors affecting the implementation of IWRM.

Explain the socio-economic and political benefits/importance of IWRM.

Explain ecosystem approaches followed in any two river basins to protect riparian rights in transboundary water issues.

Explain the legislative and institutional/organizational framework of IWRM.

Define integrated water resources management for sustainable development

Explain the difference between Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and watershed management

What are multipurpose river projects and integrated water resources management?

Explain water resources management at the river basin scale.

How would a government river basin authority help in overall planning of water use?

Discuss the relevance of IWRM to the developing world.

Explain how human development activities impact the hydrological (water) cycle, including runoff, infiltration, and stream flow.

Describe the types of aquifer systems and their hydraulic characteristics with neat sketches.

Explain the concepts of surface water–groundwater interaction, water balance, and sustainable groundwater development.

What is Water balance? And explain how it is importance?

Explain the different methods of measurement used in stream flow discharge.

Examine with example the man made and natural causes of changes in the river morphology with special reference to its land use changes.

Differentiate between surface runoff and subsurface runoff.

Explain the factors affecting runoff.

What are the various process of conservation of ground water?

What are the various factors affecting evapotranspiration?

What is an evaporation pan and how is it used to estimate lake evaporation, including the equation and terms?

What are the reasons for the increasing pollution of water resources? name atleast four.

Write short notes on artificial recharge (including choice with water conservation / sustainability topics)

Explain the different rainwater harvesting methods.

Explain the non-conventional techniques such as desalination and treatment of poor-quality water for water security.

Explain the advantages of rainwater harvesting.

Write the different components used in rainwater harvesting.

What is conjunctive use? What are the benefits of conjunctive use of water?

Explain the various processes / methods for conservation of groundwater

Discuss / explain various techniques used in artificial groundwater recharge

Mention the types of Water Management.

Make a detailed note on various techniques of water resources system analysis.