Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering

This book deals with topics of current interest, such as climate change,  floods, drought, and hydrological extremes. The impact of climate  change on water resources is drawing worldwide attention these days, for  water resources in many countries are already stressed and climate  change along with burgeoning population, rising standard of living, and  increasing demand are adding to the stress. Further, river basins are  becoming less resilient to climatic vagaries. Fundamental to addressing  these issues is hydrological modelling which is covered in these books.  Further, integrated water resources management is vital to ensure water  and food security. Integral to the management is groundwater and solute  transport. The books encompass tools that will be useful to mitigate the  adverse consequences of natural disasters.

This book provides  many new and innovative methods to assess groundwater and estimate water  pollution. Groundwater recharge, solute transport, ground water  modelling are some of the important variable used to estimate the  groundwater movement, hydraulic gradient and pollution movement. The  water quality is another important variable of river Ganga and its  tributaries in India and other rivers over the globe.