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Integrated Water Management (CE-803 (D)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Paradigm Shift in Water Management

  • Global and national perspectives of water crisis, water scarcity
  • water functions in the life-support systems
  • water availability and requirements for humans and nature
  • concepts of e28098blue watere28099, e28098green watere28099 and e28098virtual watere28099 and their roles in water management
  • human-landscape interventions
  • salient water management issues and challenges
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Unit 2

Sustainable Water Resources Management

  • Concept of sustainable development
  • sustainability principles for water management
  • goals for guiding sustainable water resource management
  • important preconditioning in water policy approaches
  • framework for planning a sustainable water future
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Unit 3

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Approach

  • IWRM Principles:Modern principles for water management and planning, definition, components, and critique of IWRM
  • IWRM Implementation: Socio-scientific, economic, political and ecological factors affecting the implementation of IWRM principles
  • Salient examples of river basin management, lessons from best practices in river-basin management
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Unit 4

Surface and Subsurface Water Systems

  • Impacts of development activities on the water cycle
  • precipitation
  • evapotranspiration
  • infiltration
  • runoff
  • streamflow
  • erosion and sedimentation
  • types of aquifer systems and their hydraulic characteristics
  • environmental impacts on groundwater systems
  • estimation of groundwater recharge and discharge, assessment of groundwater potential
  • surface water-groundwater interaction
  • concept of sustainable groundwater development and management
  • water balance, balance of water resources and needs
  • minimum water table and minimum discharges
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Unit 5

Conventional and Non-conventional Techniques for Water Security

  • Rainwater harvesting
  • groundwater mining and artificial recharge
  • conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater resources
  • long-distance water conveyance and transport
  • conservation of e28098green watere28099
  • desalination
  • treatment of poor-quality waters

Reference Books

  • Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem. CRC Press, New York
  • Integrated Watershed Management: Principles and Practice. 1988. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York
  • Engineering Hydrology, Tata McGraw Hill Publishers, New Delhi
  • Ground Water, Wiley Eastern Publication, New Delhi
  • Water Resources Systems. Planning and Management, UNESCO Publication
  • Integrated Water Resources Management, Water in South Asia Volume I, Sage Publications, 2006
  • Water Rights in India, Ed: Chhatrapati Singh. Water Law in India: The Indian Law Institute, New Delhi,1992
  • Watershed Management, CSWCTRI, Dehradun, ICAR Publications, 1997
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