This book explores the concept and issues of sustainability and its symbiotic relationship with existing water resources, the surrounding climate and geospatial development. It covers many dimensions of sustainable water resources, climatic variability, change. It also includes case studies on the basis of specific problems and issues, providing sustainable solutions for the future of the earth.

Over the past several decades, climate change has significantly impacted a number of components of the hydrological cycle and hydrological systems, including changes in precipitation patterns and intensity; widespread melting of snow and ice; increased atmospheric water vapour; increased evaporation; and changes in soil moisture and runoff. Excess runoff eventually reaches larger bodies of water such as lakes, estuaries and the ocean, contaminating the water supply and limiting human and environmental access to water. An improved understanding of how changing anthropogenic activities could affect water resources, and climate in various parts of the world is a necessary step towards sustainability. This awareness requires analyses of challenging interactive areas within the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and sociosphere, as resultant long-term sustainable strategies and measures are greatly needed.

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Dr Anupama Dubey, is currently an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Development, Institute of Public Enterprise, India, with 13 years of experience in teaching, research and training. She has earned a M.Phil. and Ph.D. in the area of Water Conservation and Management from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. She is also a Post-Doctoral Fellow funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Delhi, India. She has been a faculty of Geography at the Undergraduate Colleges of Delhi University and also gained experience in the research as a Senior Research Analyst at the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT, Delhi) on the "Sarva Siksha Abhiyan Project" of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. She has wide experience in heading and contributing to various Research and Consultancy projects funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR, India), World Health Organization, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore IIM-B and V. University of North Carolina (USA), among others. She has authored three books and edited five books with Springer Honkong and Japan and the Academic Foundation, New Delhi. In addition, she has organized and chaired International and National Conferences and training workshops. She is a Resource Person of Department of Geography, Osmania University and Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Open University for UG Courses and recording of Moocs Classes. She is a National Executive Council Member of National Association of Geographers in India (NAGI).

Dr. Subhash Anand is currently a professor at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He has 25 years of experience in teaching and research and has published 7 books and more than 70 research papers, articles and chapters in journals and books. He specialises in urban environmental issues, sustainability, solid waste management and planning and geotourism. Dr. Anand is the vice president of the Indian Geographical Society (IGS) and the vice chair of the Commission on Geoheritage, International Geographical Union (IGU). He is editor of the Springer series on Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences and an associate editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks as well as an editorial board member of many journals. He is Chairperson of governing body of Kalindi college, Treasurer in Dyal Singh college and member in various colleges of the University of Delhi and has supervised 14 Ph.D. and M.Phil. theses. Dr. Anand led the Indian delegation on the ICSSR-JSPS joint research program to Hiroshima. In addition, he has held an advanced training workshop, "Urban Spatial Planning in Response to Climate Change in Asia", in Taipei; and a Commonwealth Geographical Bureau (CGB) workshop, "Human Consequences of Climate Change", at the University of Colombo. He has travelled widely toparticipate in international conferences, seminars and workshops and has delivered lectures in several countries.

Dr. Basavaraj R. Bagade is an assistant professor at the Department of Studies and Research in Geography, Rani Channamma University. He received his M.A., M.Ed. and Ph.D. in geography and has published 47 research papers in national and international journals and attended 49 conferences, seminars and workshops. He has undergone training in geospatial technology in the program sponsored by the Natural Resources Data Management System at the National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, India. Specializing in population geography, he currently has four students pursuing a Ph.D. under his guidance. He is on the editorial board of Konkan Geographer, a multidisciplinary journal, and member of Union of Geographic Information Technologists (UGIT) and the Konkan Geographers Association of India (KGAI). He was Vice President of the National Association of Geographers, India (NAGI) in 2022 and organized the 44th Indian Geographic Congress as a Congress Convener at Belagavi, Karnataka.