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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.