Groundwater
An illustrated collection of groundwater problems: A guide to a beginner in groundwater hydrology by CAREWATER
Posted on 18 Oct, 2010 07:53 PMThis report by CAREWATER has been prepared as part of a component on Groundwater Governance in Asia: Theory and Practice under the CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food. The purpose of this collection is to guide a beginner to groundwater hydrology through the basic concepts in this subject. The problems begin with fundamentals of the subject and are followed by those which test the comprehensiveness of understanding. Most problems are illustrated and a real-world situation is related with the problem.
Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated October 13, 2010
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- Postdoctoral Fellow Quantitative Groundwater Hydrology
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Model bill to regulate and control the development of groundwater - Ministry of Water Resources (1996)
Posted on 12 Oct, 2010 10:51 AMThis document is a model bill for the regulation and control of the groundwater. It provides the details of the definitions and the process of implementation of the bill and includes:
- The title, extent and commencement of the Act
- Definitions of terms included in the Act
- Mode of establishment of a groundwater authority
- Details on powers to notify areas for control and regulation of groundwater and on the use of groundwater in notified areas
- Details of the grant of permit required to extract and use groundwater in the notified area
- Registration of existing users in the notification areas
- Mechanism of registration of new wells in the non notified areas
- Power resting with the authority to alter, amend or vary the terms of the permit
- Cancellation of permit or certificate of registration or license
- Powers of the groundwater authority
- Service of orders
- Delegation of powers and duties
- Details of mechanisms for dealing with offences
- The powers resting with the state government to make rules for the implementation of the Act.
Training modules on planning, development and management of groundwater with special reference to watershed management programmes by ACWADAM
Posted on 06 Oct, 2010 08:12 PM
Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM) is a premier education and research institution and facilitates work on groundwater management through action research programmes and trainings. ACWADAM’s main thrust has been on the process of capacity building and facilitation, both founded strongly on its research base.
ACWADAM, with support from the Ford Foundation, has embarked on strengthening civil society capabilities in groundwater management, using the watershed management platform. A comprehensive training module on basic hydrogeology and groundwater science, has been developed, and can be sourced by writing to ACWADAM at acwadam@vsnl.net.
These trainings enable the trainees particularly from Civil Society Organisations to improve the planning, implementation and monitoring of their watershed development and allied projects.
Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated October 06, 2010
Posted on 06 Oct, 2010 10:22 AM- Publication and Documentation Officer
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
Location: Pune
Last Date: October 16, 2010
Water Resources Engineering and Management - A Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted on 29 Sep, 2010 07:42 AMThis Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Water Resources Engineering and Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Water Resources Engineering is structured into modules on the topic by IIT Kharagpur as follows:
Case studies on water quality - A presentation by ACWADAM
Posted on 25 Sep, 2010 10:19 AMThis presentation by ACWADAM deals with monitoring of water quality in a watershed. It describes the process of going about conducting a hydrogeological study of the watershed, right from the study of the basic geology to the importance of the quality of groundwater in the watershed. The main hydrogeological provinces of India are described - (a) Hard rock regimes: Crystalline rocks, Volcanic (Deccan basalt), (b) Alluvial regimes, and (c) Consolidated sedimentary regimes: Soft sedimentary, Hard sedimentary.
Aquifers: The hosts of groundwater – A presentation by ACWADAM
Posted on 25 Sep, 2010 08:44 AMThis presentation by ACWADAM on aquifers states that a systematic approach to groundwater studies is required to understand how water exists in each type of rock or sediment for which hydrogeological mapping of aquifers becomes significant in every watershed programme. The necessity of studying the scientific aspects of groundwater such as its properties and distribution below the earth’s surface is highlighted.
Processes that shape the earth: II – A presentation by ACWADAM
Posted on 24 Sep, 2010 08:14 PMThe presentation deals with weathering, erosion and deposition of rocks -
- The process of breaking down and alteration of rocks and formation of new materials from them is known as weathering of rocks.
- The group of processes whereby the materials of the earth’s crust are moved from one place to another by running water (including rainfall), waves and current, glacier ice and wind is known as erosion.
- The processes whereby the material being carried during the process of erosion is deposited either through physical processes (such as drop in the velocity of flowing water) or precipitation of dissolved material under a set of conditions for instance, the deposition of limestones from water rich in calcium carbonate is known as deposition.
Processes that shape the earth: Part I – A presentation by ACWADAM
Posted on 24 Sep, 2010 07:04 PMThis presentation by ACWADAM on processes that shape the earth attempts to understand the irregularities of the surface of earth so as to consider the movement of groundwater. The earth’s surface is dotted with what is commonly perceived as high grounds or ‘hills’ and the low grounds or ‘valleys’. Hills and valleys result from movements in the earth and the long term processes of breaking-down the earth surface at some places and building it up at others, also called as diastrophism.