An Integrated Water Resource Management Plan  for Indo–Gangetic Basin Area

Nikita Gupta; Anil Kumar Misra; Anupriya Gupta; Manav Wadhwa; Ankur Shivhare

Volume : II, Issue : IV, April - 2013

An Integrated Water Resource Management Plan for Indo–Gangetic Basin Area

Nikita Gupta, Anil Kumar Misra , Anupriya Gupta, Manav Wadhwa, Ankur Shivhare

Abstract :

Water and soil both are very sensitive to climate change. These changes occur very fast in arid and semi arid regions of the world. Ganga basin area has been severely affected with changing climatic conditions. Changes in temperature has already depleted majority of the water resources and decreases the agricultural production in Ganga basin area. Some of the prominent affects are, growing deserts, increase in the magnitude of the floods and droughts and the most important are the sharp decrease in the agricultural production. To fulfill the continuous escalating water and food demand for increasing population watershed development and management plans are important for Ganga basin area to make productive the available surface water and groundwater resources. In this study a comprehensive recharge plan has been developed for entire Ganga basin area and all the morphometric parameters of the study areas have been analyzed.