Water Resources Systems Planning and ManagementElsevier, 2003 M09 12 - 882 pages This book is divided into four parts. The first part, Preliminaries, begins by introducing the basic theme of the book. It provides an overview of the current status of water resources utilization, the likely scenario of future demands, and advantages and disadvantages of systems techniques. An understanding of how the hydrological data are measured and processed is important before undertaking any analysis. The discussion is extended to emerging techniques, such as Remote Sensing, GIS, Artificial Neural Networks, and Expert Systems. The statistical tools for data analysis including commonly used probability distributions, parameter estimation, regression and correlation, frequency analysis, and time-series analysis are discussed in a separate chapter.
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... supply are specific to time and place. There has been continuous increase in the water use over the world since the time Such records are available. It has been estimated that the total water use at the beginning of the last century was ...
... supply and the use of freshwater creates serious problems in efforts to manage water resources. Hydropower is the largest renewable source of energy and is the second largest source of electricity generation. The hydropower generation ...
... supply reservoir. Most upland reservoirs supply water by pipeline or canals, often by gravity flow and offer good quality water. River-regulating reservoirs, which are major water reserves and release water downstream to sustain its ...
... supply. Due to topographic and other reasons, only about 690 billion m' of surface water is utilizable. The total replenishable ground water potential in the country is about 432 km and out of this, the utilizable quantity is about 396 ...
... supply-side solution. Till some years ago, desalination was not considered feasible except for very moderate demands ... supplies of water in accordance with the temporal and spatial distribution of demands through river regulation and ...
Contents
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Decision Making | 277 |
Water Resources Planning and Development | 503 |
Systems Operation and Management | 613 |
Appendix A Conversion Factors | 843 |
Appendix B Useful Internet Sites | 845 |
Index | 849 |
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Water Resources Systems Planning and Management Sharad Kumar Jain,Vijay P. Singh No preview available - 2003 |