Groundwater Resources Development and Planning in the Semi-Arid Region [Hardcover]

This book addresses the various challenges in achieving sustainable groundwater development, management, and planning in semi-arid regions, with a focus on India, and discusses advanced remote sensing and GIS techniques for the estimation and management of groundwater resources. The book is timely as there is a need for a better understanding of the various tools and methods required to efficiently and sustainably meet the growing demand for clean surface and groundwater in developing countries, and how these tools can be combined with other strategies in a multi-disciplinary fashion to achieve this goal in water-scarce regions. To wit, the book combines remote sensing and GIS techniques, runoff modeling, aquifer mapping, land use and land cover analyses, evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficients, and water policy approaches. This will be of use to academics, policymakers, social scientists, and professionals involved in the various aspects of sustainable groundwater development, planning, and management.Chapter 1-Issues and challenges of groundwater and surface water management in the semi-arid region.- Chapter 2-Aquifer Mapping & Management and Groundwater Flow Modelling.- Chapter 3-Agriculture, Rainwater harvesting sites, and crop suitability analysis using WOA, RS, and GIS methods.- Chapter 4-Hydrogeological systems: drainage analysis, morphometric analysis, watershed prioritization.- Chapter 5-Integrating watershed Planning and Management using Remote Sensing and GIS methods and modeling.- Chapter 6-Assessment of Groundwater Prospects Zones using RS, GIS, and MIF methods.- Chapter 7-Changes in land use and land cover impact on the groundwater recharge planning and water level.- Chapter 8-Assessment of Groundwater quality mapping for groundwater development.- Chapter 9-Groundwater level variation and Trend analysis of groundwater level.- Chapter 10-IdentlÓ,