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Water Resources Management for Rural Development

Challenges and Mitigation

  • 1st Edition - September 29, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sughosh Madhav, Sylvester Chibueze Izah, Eric D. van Hullebusch, Arun Lal Srivastav
  • Language: English

Water Resources Management for Rural Development: Challenges and Mitigation provides an overview of the current challenges of rural water and its management strategies. The conte… Read more

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Description

Water Resources Management for Rural Development: Challenges and Mitigation provides an overview of the current challenges of rural water and its management strategies. The content contains practical and theoretical aspects of the water crisis in rural areas in a changing climate era, with an emphasis on recent water crisis research and management strategies. The book's structure contains fundamentals of water resources, pollution, remediation, supply and management strategies. Case studies included provide different water-related issues around the globe, introducing the reader to the paths of reducing the burden on the groundwater and the alternative options for the supply of water in rural areas.

Decision-makers and water supply authorities will benefit from this unique resource that comprehensively covers rural water management in ways no comparable book has achieved.

Key features

  • Includes case studies that follow a consistent template, providing the reader with easy to find real-life examples
  • Covers a wide spectrum of topics related to water resources as written by experts in their field
  • Provides information on the identification of technologies and instruments required for the management of, and safe supply of, water

Readership

Environmental scientists and engineers, water resource experts, agriculturalists, social scientists, earth scientists, geographers, Decision makers in government, water management and urban planners

Table of contents

Section I: Challenges in rural water management

1. Water resources in rural areas: Challenges and management strategies for sustainable development

2. Alternative water resources in rural areas

3. Water scarcity in rural areas: A case of developing nations and the global scenario

4. Water pollution in rural areas: Primary sources and associated health issues

5. Transformation in agricultural practices amid the prevalence of water-related issues in rural areas

6. Challenges and management strategies of rural water supply

Section II: Technical aspects of rural water management

7. Traditional methods of water conservation in rural areas

8. Traditional techniques of water purification in rural areas

9. Advance technologies for water management in rural areas

10. Integrated water resources management in rural areas

11. Water efficiency in agriculture as a vital approach towards water management in rural areas

12. Water resources management in drought and flood-prone rural areas

Section III : Role of society, NGOs and Government in rural water management

13. Socioeconomic issues of water resources in rural areas

14. Community-based water resource management in the rural areas

15. National and international organizations for water resources management in rural areas

16. NGOs participation in water conservation/management in rural areas

17. Environmental law for the use of groundwater and surface water resources in the rural area

Section IV: Future scenario and case studies related to rural water management

18. Future scenario of rural water resources: Its challenges and implementation strategies.

19. Challenges in rural water resources and management strategies in changing climatic conditions

20. Case studies of the restoration of the post-degraded rural water system

21. Case studies of success stories of water management in rural areas

22. Comparative study and developed and developing nation for rural water management

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 29, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Sughosh Madhav

Dr. Sughosh Madhav works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has obtained his master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He earned his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The area of his doctoral research is the environmental impact of textile effluents on groundwater and soil quality. He has published various research papers and book chapters in environmental geochemistry, water pollution, and wastewater remediation. He also edited 4 books related to water resource management in Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley publications.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

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Sylvester Chibueze Izah

Dr. Sylvester C. Izah is a public health and environmental microbiology scholar at Bayelsa Medical University, Yenagoa, Nigeria, where he also serves as Assistant Director of Academic Planning, Research, and Innovations. He holds dual Ph.D. degrees in Public Health and in Applied Microbiology and Environmental Health, along with an M.Sc. in Applied Microbiology and a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from Niger Delta University, Nigeria. He is a licensed environmental health specialist in Nigeria. Dr. Izah’s research centers on environmental contaminants and their implications for food safety, human health, and sustainable food systems. His expertise includes heavy metal contamination of soil, water, and food matrices; exposure pathways and toxicological risk assessment; environmental microbiology; sanitation and waste management; and One Health–based sustainability frameworks. He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications and edited or contributed to books with leading publishers bringing a strong global perspective to this volume.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Community Medicine, Bayelsa Medical University, Yenagoa, Nigeria

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Eric D. van Hullebusch

Eric D. van Hullebusch is a Full Professor in Biogeochemistry of Engineered Ecosystems at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité, France. He holds a Ph.D. in Aquatic Chemistry and Microbiology from Université de Limoges. After a Marie Curie fellowship at Wageningen University & Research, where he worked on optimizing anaerobic sludge reactorswith respect to trace metal speciation and bioavailability, he was appointed Associate Professor in 2005 at Université Gustave Eiffel. A very prolific researcher and author, his key interests lie in the biogeochemistry of metals and metalloids in engineered systems, pollutant remediation, and circular resource recovery through biohydrometallurgical techniques. He is especially focused on sustainable strategies for waste treatment, soil remediation, and recovering technology-critical elements from agricultural and industrial wastes.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

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Arun Lal Srivastav

Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Affiliations and expertise
Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, Solan, India

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