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Integrated Water Resources Management: Perspective for State of Uttarakhand, India

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Himalayan areas are the water bucket of the world and contribute one of the world’s greatest freshwater resources. The Himalayan system provides plentiful services to the downstream towns and population in terms of water for household purposes and ecosystems services, etc. More than 1.4 billion people directly depend on water from the rivers of the Himalaya. So, water resources and its management for providing clean water and sanitation are already a challenge in the Himalayan region. All the mitigation measures adopted under Ganga Action Plan (for cleaning of all tributaries of river Ganga started by ministry of water resource in 14 Jan 1986) focus primarily on the big cities for construction of sewage treatment plants, interceptor sewers, and sewage diversion mechanisms. But always questions are raising about the sustainability, maintenance and cost-efficiency of these mitigation measures, and its effect on water quality of the river. For small areas and towns of Uttarakhand, natural, sustainable, efficient, natural, and long-life mitigation measures are required for reducing the pollution level in the river system.

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Abbreviations

GIS:

Geographical information system

S:

River meandering sinuosity value

IWRM:

Integrated water resources management

RS:

Remote sensing

RBF:

Riverbank filtration

DEM:

Digital elevation model

SOMA:

Switch Organic Micro-Pollutant Assessment Tool

STP:

Sewage treatment plants

LPCD:

Litre per capita per day

MPN:

Most probable numbe

MLD:

Million litres per day

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  1. Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland

    Epari Ritesh Patro

  2. Hydrology and Natural Resource Management, Haridwar, India

    Pooran Singh Patwal

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Shahid Ul Islam

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  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Patro, E.R., Patwal, P.S., Islam, S.U. (2023). Integrated Water Resources Management: Perspective for State of Uttarakhand, India. In: Shukla, P., Singh, P., Singh, R.M. (eds) Environmental Processes and Management. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 120. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20208-7_13

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