November 2010

Environmental flows in Bhadra River, Karnataka, India

  Environmental water requirements, also referred as ‘environmental flows’, are a compromise between water resources development and the maintenance of a river in ecologically acceptable or agreed condition. Managing environmental water flow is a complex task because the change of quantity of water occurs as the flow moves downstream. In this work, an attempt has been made to evaluate the...

Author(s): B. K. Harish Kumara, S. Srikantaswamy and Shakuntala Bai

November 2010

Evaluation of the radiation dose from radon ingestion and inhalation in drinking water

  Radon and its radioactive progenies in indoor places are recognized as the main sources of public exposure from the natural radioactive sources. The tap water used for drinking and other household uses can increase the indoor radon level. In the present research, drinking water samples were collected from various places and supplies of public water used in Mashhad city which has about 4 million population....

Author(s):   A. Binesh , S. Mohammadi , A. A. Mowlavi  and P. Parvaresh       

November 2010

Need of benchmarking for socially and environmentally sustainable development of a major irrigation scheme

  It is a proven fact that the quantity and quality of available water resources have been recognized as limiting factors in development of most of the arid and semi arid regions. The function of the conveyance and distribution systems and services should be providing sufficient water in a timely manner so that it can be used efficiently for crop production. Reliability, flexibility and efficiency are the...

Author(s): Sanjay Sitaram Phadnis and Mukul Kulshrestha