Sustainable Groundwater Resources Development

ISBN-13: 9786200251787 / Angielski

Arumugam Jothibasu; Siddan Anbazhagan

Opis

Sustainable resource development is one of the prime objectives focused in most of the countries in the world irrespective of developed or developing countries. In the recent years, scientists, planners and decision makers are pay their attention towards sustainable development. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need. The objective of the present study is to assess the sustainability state of aquifers for sustainable developmental planning using integrated hydrogeological parameters. The results obtained through integrated geophysical, remote sensing and GIS analysis provide a reasonable sustainable status of groundwater. Only 14% of the aquifer area suitable for irrigation, the outcome of the present study indicates that the concentration of certain parameters exceeds the recommended limits and hence the sub-basin needed sustainable development. Sub-basin covered under slightly unsustainable to medium unsustainable aquifer zone, which requires immediate restriction of current rate of groundwater exploitation and protect the aquifer through artificial recharge.

O autorze

Jothibasu, Arumugam
Dr. A. Jothibasu is UGC Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Geoinformatics, Periyar University. He had M.Sc., Geology distinction and M.Phil., first rank with Gold Medal from Periyar University. He awarded RGNF fellowship for his Ph.D., programme on sustainable groundwater development. He got IAHS-SYSTA award (Canada) & DST-SERB (35th IGC, SA).