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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