Water Resources Management in the Ganges Basin: A Comparison of Three Strategies for Conjunctive Use of Groundwater and Surface Water

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1235-1250

  Khan, Mahfuzur R ^a   Voss, Clifford I ^b   Yu, Winston ^c   Michael, Holly A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial recharge; Conjunctive use; Flood reduction; Ganges Basin; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INVESTMENTS; IRRIGATION; PUMPS; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE; CONJUNCTIVE USE; GANGES BASIN; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; PUBLIC INVESTMENTS; SEASONALITY; SOIL WATERLOGGING; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

SURFACE WATER RESOURCES;

ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOODING; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SEASONALITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STORAGE; WATER USE;

GANGES BASIN; INDIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 84897575043     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0537-y     Document Type: Article

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