Water Scarcity, Contamination and Management

Water Scarcity, Contamination, and Management presents new and updated material, including case studies, step-by-step guidance on key procedures and protocols, and timely topics such as climate change and integrated water resource management. This book is divided into three key sections. Section 1―Water Resource Scarcity―focuses on sustainable development and management of water resources and techniques and methods for improving water use efficiency. Section 2―Contamination of Water Resources―focuses on understanding the quality of water resources, migration of pollutant sources, geochemical processes, groundwater depletion, and seasonal variations in contaminant concentration, water resources’ quality status, and associated human health risks. Section 3―Water Resource Management―considers a consolidated and coordinated approach to find the solution to water resource issues.

Presenting a comprehensive overview of the water management field, the book serves as a valuable reference for students, professors, scholars, researchers, and consultants in the fields of water resources, civil engineering, environmental science and engineering, and hydrology.

Dr. Ashwani Kumar Tiwari is working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His teaching and researcher areas are water resources management and GIS, hydro-geochemistry, pollution of water resources by geogenic and anthropogenic activities, groundwater-seawater interaction and aquifer vulnerability. Dr. Tiwari was Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy for around four years. He has done M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Environmental Science and completed his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Science from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India in 2016. He was awarded Erasmus Mundus and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Scholarships. Dr. Tiwari has travelled Canada, Chile, Malta, Germany, Estonia, Bulgaria and Finland in academic-related pursuits. He has published several research articles in various reputed international and national journals and his works on respective fields are very well appreciated by the many workers across the world. He has served as a reviewer for many international journals.

Dr. Amit Kumar completed his Ph.D. from Panjab University, Chandigarh jointly with the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee in 2011. Currently, Dr. Kumar’s research work has focused on glaciology (particularly in the Hydro-meteorological applications in Himalaya and Karakoram). He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers published in domestic and international journals, such as Journal of Earth System Sciences, Current Science, Hydrological processes, Water Resources Management, Journal of Hydrology: Regional studies, Geomorphology and International Journal of Sediment Research, his publications have cited more than 300 times. Dr. Kumar has received some awards to conduct high standard scientific research, for example, the “Young Scientist” award from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 2014. He worked in collaboration with Dr. Umesh Haritashya at the University of Dayton, the USA in the area of snow and glacier hydrology and sediment transfer processes across the Himalaya. Currently, he is a Scientist at Centre for Glaciology, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.

Dr. Abhay Kumar Singh is presently working as a Principal Scientist in the Environmental Management Group of the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, India. Dr. Singh has obtained B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. Degree in Geology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has made a good contribution towards the understanding of the earth surface processes and impacts of mining and industrial activities on natural resources and its management. He has successfully completed a number of S&T and industry-sponsored projects related to rainwater chemistry, groundwater chemistry, groundwater management, mine water environment and EIA/EMP study of coal and non-coal mines. He has published more than 100 research papers in National and International Journals/Seminar/Symposia, have with total citations of over 2600. Dr. Singh has travelled Nepal, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy and Mauritius in academic-related pursuits. He is the recipient of the Indian Science Congress Young Science Award (1999), INSA Visiting Fellowship (2005), Commonwealth Academic Fellowship (2012) and the prestigious National Geoscience Award (2013).

Prof. T.N. Singh is Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith and Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. He is an expert in the field of rock mechanics, mining geology, and clean energy. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi, in 1991 and subsequently served the institute until 2003. He is a recipient of many prestigious awards such as the National Mineral Award, the first P. N. Bose Mineral Award, the SEAGATE Excellence Award for Geo-Engineering, and the GSI Sesquicentennial Commemorative Award. He has nearly 28 years of experience in research and teaching with 16 doctoral theses completed under his supervision and has authored more than 350 publications in various journals and conferences of national and international repute, have with total citations of over 10100. He is on the governing and advisory councils of several national institutes and universities.

Dr. Eng. Enrico Suozzi is a research fellow at Politecnico di Torino and is working on problems of boundary aquifers, meanwhile is a Contract Professor of GIS and thematic mapping in the same University. Dr. Suozzi is an image processing expert and GIS analyst: graduated in Environmental Engineering in 2008 and received PhD in GeoEngineering from Politecnico di Torino in Italy. During his doctorate, he developed an instrument to measure snow density that has been patented and won a competition called “start-cup”. So far, he has been teaching GIS and thematic cartography for 6 years at University and he held private courses (ERDF European Regional Development Found) on photogrammetry and images processing. He was for three years CEO and after CTO of a company focused on 3D survey and GIS application, laser scanner and UAV acquisition techniques. He has published many papers in national and international journals. His academic research focused on Spatial Analysis and Modelling using GIS, Critical Areas (HotSpot) Detection, Change Detection Analysis, Remote Sensing image processing and classification, Territorial planning and Territorial Information Systems (SIT).