This book discusses various issues relating to water resources, climate change and sustainable development. Water is the main driving force behind three major pillars of sustainable development: environmental, social and economic. As stated in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, development of these pillars rests on the availability and management of resources to fulfill the demand for water. By identifying the various challenges in the context of water resources and climate change, the book offers insights into achieving a better and more sustainable future. It provides a unique forum for practitioners and academics to exchange ideas on emerging issues, approaches, and practices in the area of water resources, climate change, and sustainability, while also presenting valuable information for policymakers on the changing contours of water management and climate change mitigation. As such it is a useful resource for decision-makers at the local as well as the global level.

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R. K. Mishra is a Senior Professor, Director of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) , and Subir Raha Chair Professor at the Institute of Public Enterprise in India. He is a graduate of the International Management Programme, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy, and a Fellow of the British Council and Commonwealth Secretariat. He has completed research at the London Business School and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, and has taught at the University of Bradford, UK. He was a Visiting Professor at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; the University of Technology Mara, Malaysia; and the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has handled assignments for various ministries of the Government of India. He is on the board of several public companies and on the expert panel of the Performance Management Division to evaluate the performance of various ministries of the Government of India.  R. B. Singh is a Professor and Head of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He is the first Indian and second Asian to be elected Secretary-General and Treasurer of the International Geographical Union. He is currently Chair of the Research Council, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Government of India. He is also a member of the International Science Council (ISC) Scientific Committee and elected President of the Earth System Science Section of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA). He has published 15 books, 35 edited volumes, and more than 235 research papers in journals. UNESCO/ISSC (Paris) awarded him the Research and Study Grants Award in Social and Human Sciences. He was also awarded a prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship at Hiroshima in 2013 and several travel fellowships, and he has received other forms of support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), among others.  Anupama Dubey is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Enterprise. She is a postgraduate of Allahabad University and holds M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in the area of water conservation and management from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. She has more than ten years of teaching, research, and training experience. She has been a member of the Faculty of Geography at Delhi University and also has worked at the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT, Delhi) as a Senior Research Analyst on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (a Ministry of Human Resource Development project). She has headed and contributed to various research and consultancy projects funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR, India); Union Grant Commission (UGC); Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB); National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD, India); International Developmental Research Centre (IDRC, Canada); World Health Organization; and University of North Carolina (USA). Her papers have been published and presented in national and international journals and conferences. She has chaired national and international conferences and organized national conferences and training workshops. She has published two authored books and an edited book with the Academic Foundation, New Delhi, in 2019.

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Part 1. Water Resource Management: Issues and Challenges

Chapter 1. Role of Watershed Management in Inclusive Development of a region: A Case Study of Velchal Watershed, Telangana

Anupama Dubey and Ram Kumar Mishra

Chapter 2. Rainwater Harvesting Systems as Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Tool for Drought and Flood Prone Areas of Sri Lanka

T.N. Ariyananda

Chapter 3. Empowering poor farmers for climate smart water management and agriculture production: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh

S P Tucker and Joseph L Plakkoottam Chapter 4. Watershed Prioritisation in GIS : a comparison of multiple approaches

Stutee Gupta, C. Sarala, K.M. Reddy and Ramraj Pendkar

Chapter 5. Efficiency Assessment of Sewage Treatment Plants For Treating Waste Water: Case Study of Narela Sewage Treatment Plantsin Delhi, India

Shikha Yadav, Subhash Anand , Paramjit and Jagbir Singh

Chapter 6. The Hierarchical Segregation of Groundwater Potential Zones Using Weighted Index Overlay Method for the Discernment of Site Suitable Artificial Recharge Structures in the Development of Avunoor Watershed

Lokesh Kumar Chilukuri and Sathish Kumar Vasa and Akhtar Ali Chapter 7. Delineation of Ground Water Potential Zones on Lower and Middle Beas Basin Using Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System

Ashutosh Mohanty,Arunashis Chandra and Pritam Ghosh

Chapter 8. Spatial distribution of reactive nitrogen in Najafgarh Lake and adjoining Canal, Delhi

PriyankaVerma and Pamposhb

Chapter 9. Effect of pollution on the sediment bacterial diversity and composition in Najafgarh lake, Delhi

Sandhya Bhat and Pamposh

Chapter 10. Spatial distribution of uranium and its associated water quality parameters (drinking / ground water) in Raigad district of Maharashtra

Jyoti G. Koliyar

Chapter 11. Water Stress and Water Crisis in Large Cities of India

Priyanka Ghosh

Chapter 12. Status of River Water Quality in Goa: A Geographical Review

P. R. Morakar and Bala Kishan

Part 2. Climate Change: Ethics and Environmental Issues

Chapter 13. Association and Effects of ISMR and El Niño Southern Oscillation on Dengue outbreaks in India

Netrananda Sahu and Martand Mishra

Chapter 14. Assessment of Carbon Sequestration and Tree Diversity in Gokarna Forest, Kathmandu, Nepal

Sagar Dhakal, Ashutosh Mohanty and Kedar Prasad Rijal

Chapter 15. Geospatial Analysis to understand the linkage between Urban Sprawl and Temperature of a Region Micro and Meso Scale Study of Mumbai City

Hemant Bherwani, Suman Kumar, Narendra Kumar, Anju Singh, Rakesh Kumar

Chapter 16. Climate change Mitigation measures in Telangana state, India

Ashok Kumar Lonavath and Karunakar Virugu

Chapter 17. Examining Land Surface Temperature From Agglomerative Spectra Using Hyperspectral Dataset

K Nivedita Priyadarshini , V Sivashankari1, Sulochana Shekhar, K Balasubramani

Chapter 18. Assessment Of Agricultural Drought Vulnerability In Tamil Nadu

S.Latha

Chapter 19. Impact of Climate Change on Oil and Gas Sector

Keshav Singhal, Abhijeet Pawar, Sandeep Deedwania

Chapter 20. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Climate Change in Belgaum District, Karnataka

Basavaraj R.Bagade

Part 3. Sustainable Development: A way forward

Chapter 21. Status of drinking water sustainability using GIS in Rangareddy- A case study

B. Srinagesh and K.Sudarshan

Chapter 22. Cultural landscapes of Kakatiyas and Mission Kakatiya scheme under Government of Telangana

GSV Suryan…