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

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

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Unit 1

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 ‘blue water’ ‘green water’ and ‘virtual water’ and their roles in water management
  • human-landscape interventions and salient water management issues and challenges.-
  • landscape interventions and salient water management issues and challenges.
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Unit 2

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

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

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, ground water 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

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 ‘green water’ desalination
  • treatment of poor-quality waters.
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Unit 6

== END OF UNITS==

  • ==End of CE VIII Sem Syllabus==
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