Using the living wisdom of well drillers to construct digital groundwater data bases across indo-gangetic basin

Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins: Realities and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 247-263

  Krishnan, S ^a   Islam, A ^b   Machiwal, D ^c   Sena, D R ^d   Villholth, Karen G ^e  

^a INREM Foundation   (India)

^b ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR EASTERN REGION   (India)

^c MAHARANA PRATAP UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (India)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898830193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9780203874479-24     Document Type: Chapter

References (18)

1. CGWB (1993), Hydrogeology of Vaishali district, Central Groundwater Board, Patna, India.
2. CSE (2001), Dying wisdom: Rise, fall and potential of India’s traditional water harvesting systems, (eds) Agarwal, A., Narain S. and I. Khurana, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.
3. Goovaerts, P., (1997), Geostatistics for natural resources evaluation, Oxford University Press.
4. Jiang, H., (2003), ‘Stories remote sensing images can tell: Integrating remote sensing analysis with ethnographic research in the study of cultural landscapes’, Human Ecology, 31 (2): 215-232.
5. Jonsson, L. and Lundell, L. (2004) ‘Targeting safe aquifers in regions with arsenic-rich groundwater in Bangladesh: Case study in Matlab Upazila’. Minor Field Studies No. 277, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. 60 p.
6. NIH (1999), Hydrology in Ancient India, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India.
7. NIH (2000), Development of conjunctive use model for lower Gandak basin (Part 1), National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India.
8. Rosin, T., (1993), The tradition of groundwater irrigation in northwestern India. Human Ecology 21 (1): 51-86.
9. SenguptaN., (1993), ‘Lessons of indigenous management methods’, paper presented atWorkshop onWater Management-India’s Groundwater Challenge. VIKSAT/Pacific Institute Collaborative Groundwater Project, Ahmedabad, India.
10. Shah T., (1993), Groundwater markets and irrigation development: political economy and practical policy. Oxford University Press, India.
11. Shaw, J. and Sutcliffe, J.V., (2003), ‘Ancient dams, settlement archeology and Buddhist propagation in central India: the hydrological background’, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 48 (2): 277-291.
12. Strebelle, S., (2001), ‘Conditional simulation of complex geological structures using multiple-point statistics’, Mathematical Geology, 34 (1): 1-22
13. von Hayek, F.A., (1974), The Pretence of Knowledge, Nobel Prize Lecture for Economics. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1974/hayek-lecture.html (accessed on 11th February 2008).
14. Almost All Questions Answered(AAQUA), http://aaqua.persistent.co.in/ (accessed on 11th February 2008).
15. Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), http://www.globe.gov, The GLOBE program (accessed on 11th February 2008).
16. Honey Bee network, http://www.sristi.org/honeybee.html (accessed on 11th February 2008).
17. M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), http://mssrf.org/iec/index.htm (accessed on 11th February 2008).
18. Virtual Academy for the Semi-Arid Tropics (VASAT), http://www.vasat.org (accessed on 11th February 2008).