This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy and Society. The book is divided into five parts. The first part deals with some aspects of environmental pollution such as socio-economic environment assessment for sustainable development, environmental issues due to fire in coal Mines and its impact and suggestions for implementing precautionary and control measures, redevelopment of urban slum dwellings: issues & challenges, air and noise pollution in mega cities, importance of indoor environmental quality in green buildings. Part II discusses pollution indicators such as assessment and prediction of environmental noise, fuzzy logic based performance evaluation, fish biodiversity and its periodic reduction, effects of anthropogenic activities on fresh water ecosystems, and monitoring of air pollution. Part III focuses on generation of pollution namely biomedical waste generation and management, heavy metal leaching, etc. Water quality assessment is described in Part IV. The Part V presents water quality modeling. The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of water resources, hydrology, environmental resources, agricultural engineering, watershed management, earth sciences, as well as those engaged in natural resources planning and management. Graduate students and those wishing to conduct further research in water and environment and their development and management will also find the book to be of value.
1. Socio-Economic Environment Assessment for Sustainable Development,
by Atul Kumar Rahul.-
2. Research Need on Environmental Gains in Conservation
Induced Relocation, by Surendra Singh Rajpoot.-
3. Environmental Issues due
to Fire in Coal Mines its Impact and Suggestions for Implementing
Precautionary and Control Measures, by R.V. K. Singh.-
4. Redevelopment of
Urban Slum Dwellings: Issues & Challenges, by Dhrupad Rupwate.-
5. Importance
of Indoor Environmental Quality in Green Buildings, by Alisha Patnaik. -6.
Meteorological Factors Influencing Dispersion of Vehicular Pollution in a
Typical Highway Condition, by Rajni Dhyani.-
7. Study of Air and Noise
Pollution in Mega Cities of India, by Amrit Kumar.-
8. A Critical Review on
Air Quality Index- Shweta Kumari.-
9. Aquatic Insects as Pollution Indicator-
A Study in Cachar, Assam, North East India, by Arpita Dalal.-
10. Monitoring
of Air Pollution in Different Region Along Road network, Jharia Coalfield,
Dhanbad, India, by Shiv Kumar Yadav.-
11. Spatial Distribution and Baseline
Concentration of Heavy Metals in Swell-Shrink Soils of Madhya Pradesh, India,
by Rajendiran, S..-
12. Associative Study of Aerosol Pollution, Precipitation
and Vegetation in Indian Region [ 2000-2013], by Manu Mehta.-
13. Fuzzy Logic
Based Performance Evaluation of EIA Reports for Hydroelectric Projects, by
Purbashree Sarmah.-
14. Assessment and Prediction of Environmental Noise
Generated by Road Traffic in Nagpur City, India, by Sameer. S. Pathak.-
15.
Time Dependent Study of Electromagetic Field and Indoor Meteorological
Parameters in Individual Working Environment, by A.K.Mishra.-
16. Fish
Biodiversity and Its Periodic Reduction A Case Study of River Narmada in
Central India, by Muslim Ahmad Shah.-
17. Effects of Anthropogenic Activities
on the Fresh Water Ecosystem- A Case Study of Kappithodu in Kerala, by Sherly
P Anand.-
18. Degradation of Heptachlor by High Carbon Iron Filings (HCIF) by
Alok Sinha.-
19. Biomedical Waste Generation and Management in Public Sector
Hospital in Shimla City, by Prachi Vasistha.-
20. Fuel Loss and Related
Emissions Due to Idling of Motorized Vehicles at a Major Intersection in
Delhi, by Niraj Sharma.-
21. Emission Inventorisation and Modelling of
Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds from Petrol Distribution Centres in an
Urban Area, by Sunil Gulia.-
22. Comprehensive Physico-Chemical
Characterization of Coal Combustion Residues from a Thermal Power Station of
India, by Ritesh Kumar.-
23. Influence of Semi-Arid Climate on
Characterisation of Domestic Wastewater, by Vinod Kumar Tripathi.-
24.
Anomalous Features of Black Carbon and Particulate Matter Observed over a
Rural Station during Diwali Festival of 2015, by P.C.S. Devara.-
25. Heavy
Metal Leaching Potential of Discarded Mobile Phones Wastes: A Laboratory
Based Study, by Devika Bajpai.-
26. Decolorizetion of Reactive Yellow 17 Dye
Using Aspergillus Tamar II, by Anuradha Singh.-
27. Discovery of the Helium
Rare Gas in SaugorDivision, Southern Ganga Basin, Bundelkhand Region, M.P.,
INDIA, by A. K. Shadilya.-
28. How Soil Texture Affects the Organic Carbon
Load in the Mangrove Ecosystem a Case Study from Bhitarkanika, Odisha by
Kakoli Banerjee.-
29. Recent Developments in Deeluoridation of Drinking Water
in India, by Swati Dubey.-
30. Water Quality Assessment and Correlation Study
of Physico-Chemical Parameters of Sukinda Chromite Mining Area, Orissa,
India, R.K. Tiwary.-
31. Water Quality Assessment of a Lentic Water Body
Using Remote Sensing A Case Study, by Purandara B. K.-
32. Assessment of
Trends in Water Quality of Khadakwasla Reservoir Using CCME-WQI, by Savitri
K. Hansda.-
33. Assessment of Agricultural Water Quality of Shallow
Groundwater between Budhni and Chaursakhedi, North of River Narmada, District
Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India, by Sunil Kumar Sharma.-
34. Active Water
Quality Management in Rural Small Watersheds, by Koichi Unami.-
35.
Evaluation of the Surface Water Quality Index of JhariaCoal Mining Region and
its Management of Surface water Resources, by Prasoon Kumar Singh.-
36.
Studies on the Production of Salt Tolerant Alkaline Protease Isolated from
Proteus Mirabilis and Its Degradation of Hyper-Saline Soak Liquor, by
Maharaja.P.-
37. Relative Contribution of Phosphorus from Various Sources to
the Upper Lake, Bhopal by M. Vassanda Coumar.-
38. Assessment of Fluoride in
Rain-fed and Irrigated Agricultural Soil of Tonalite-Trondjhemite Series in
Central India, by Bijendra Kumar.-
39. Biomonitoring of Paravur Lake in
Kerala Using Macro-Invertebrates, by Sreeja .J.-
40. Change Detection of
Sodic Landinraebareli District Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques by
Arif Ahmad.-
41. Process Modelling of Gas-Liquid Stirred Tank with Neural
Networks, by Neha Phukon.-
42. Identification and Planning of Water Quality
Monitoring Network in Context of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM),
by Surjeet Singh.-
43. An Updated Review on Quantitative and Qualitative
Analysis,by Shreya Gaur.-
44. Ensemble MCDM Approach to Determine Priorities
of Parameters for WQI, by Ritabrata Roy.-
45. Aerosol Optical Depth Variation
During A Recent Dust Event In North India.
Vijay P. Singh is a University Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and the inaugural holder of the Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in Engineering. He is a P.E., P.H., and an Hon. D. WRE. He has published more than 910 journal articles; 25 textbooks; 60 edited reference books, including the massive Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers and Handbook of Applied Hydrology; He has received more than 90 national and international awards including Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award, Chow Award, Torrens Award, Norman Medal, and EWRI Lifetime Achievement Award, given by ASCE, Ray K. Linsley Award and Founders Award, given by AIH; Crystal Drop Award, given by IWRA; and Outstanding Distinguished Scientist Award given by Sigma Xi, and three honorary doctorates. He is a Distinguished Member of the ASCE, a fellow of EWRI, AWRA, IWRS, ISAE, IASWC, and IE. He has served as the President and Senior Vice President of the AIH. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of two book series and three journals.
Shalini Yadav is a Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, AISECT University, Bhopal, India. Her research interests include Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Construction Management, Environmental Quality, and Water Resources. She has executed a variety of research projects/consultancy in Environmental and Water Science and Technology and has got rich experience in planning, formulating, organizing, executing, and management of R&D Programs, Seminars, and Conferences at National and International level. She has got to her credit guiding an appreciable number of M.Tech and Ph.D. students. She has published more than 10 journal articles and 30 technical reports. Professor Shalini Yadav got her M.E. and Ph.D. Degree in Civil Engineering with specialization in Environmental Engineering. She is a recipient of national fellowships/awards and she is a reviewer in many International journals. She has been recognized for one and half decades of leadership in research, teaching, and service to the Environmental Engineering Profession.
Ram Narayan Yadava holds the position of Vice Chancellor of the AISECT University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. His research interests include Environmental Quality and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling, Environmental Sciences, R&D Planning and Management. He executed a variety of research/consultancy projects in the area of Water Resources Planning and Management, Environment, Remote Sensing, Mathematical Modeling, etc. Dr. Yadava has been recognized for three and half decades of leadership in research and service to the hydrologic and water resources profession. Dr. Yadavas contribution to the state of the art has been significant in many different specialty areas, including water resources management, environmental sciences, irrigation science, soil and water conservation engineering, and mathematical modeling. He has published more than 90 journal articles; 4 textbooks; 7 edited reference books. He earned his M.Sc. from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Varanasi and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India. Also, he is the recipient of Raman Research Fellowship and other awards.
