Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development of Water Resources in the Himalayan Headwaters of India

Tiwari, Prakash C.; Joshi, Brijendra Kumar

doi:10.1007/s11269-011-9825-y

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“…During the recent past a variety of changes has emerged in traditional resource utilization pattern mainly in response to the population growth and resultant increased demand of natural resources, and to the global change, particularly economic globalisation, urbanization and climate change in the Himalayas (IOM 2008;Jain and Nagarwalla 2004;Tiwari and Joshi 2012a). Women experience these changes differently and disproportionately and respond to them in a varying manner because of socially constructed gender relations and environmental sensitivity of mountain ecosystems.…”

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Environmental changes, rural out-migration and social dynamics in Himalayas

Tiwari

Joshi

2015

Stud. Obsz. Wiej.

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Environmental changes, rural out-migration and social dynamics in Himalayas

Tiwari

Joshi

2015

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“…Application of this model can reduce conflicts between upstream and downstream water stakeholders, while maintaining environmental flow requirements. A case study in northern India demonstrates a progressive water resource development plan to evaluate conservation of land, water, and forest resources [24]. Their proposed plan considers ecological sustainability, socio-economic options and user requirements.…”

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Sustainable Water Management in Urban, Agricultural, and Natural Systems

Russo

Alfredo

Fisher

2014

Water

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Sustainable water management (SWM) requires allocating between competing water sector demands, and balancing the financial and social resources required to support necessary water systems. The objective of this review is to assess SWM in three sectors: urban, agricultural, and natural systems. This review explores the following questions: (1) How is SWM defined and evaluated? (2) What are the challenges associated with sustainable development in each sector? (3) What are the areas of greatest potential improvement in urban and agricultural water management systems? And (4) What role does country development status have in SWM practices? The methods for evaluating water management practices range from relatively simple indicator methods to integration of multiple models, depending on the complexity of the problem and resources of the investigators. The two key findings and recommendations for meeting SWM objectives are:(1) all forms of water must be considered usable, and reusable, water resources; and (2) increasing agricultural crop water production represents the largest opportunity for reducing total water consumption, and will be required to meet global food security needs. The level of regional development should not dictate sustainability objectives, however local OPEN ACCESSWater 2014, 6 3935 infrastructure conditions and financial capabilities should inform the details of water system design and evaluation.

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“…Many countries and regions in the world suffer from chronic water shortages, often from a scarcity of clean drinking water (Mukheibir 2010;Tiwari and Joshi 2012;Wang and Yu 2014). Therefore, water quality protection and remediation are very important aspects of sustainable social-economic development (Zhou et al 2014).…”

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Water quality trend and change-point analyses using integration of locally weighted polynomial regression and segmented regression

Huang

Wang

Xia

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Trend and change-point analyses of water quality time series data have important implications for pollution control and environmental decision-making. This paper developed a new approach to assess trends and change-points of water quality parameters by integrating locally weighted polynomial regression (LWPR) and segmented regression (SegReg). Firstly, LWPR was used to pretreat the original water quality data into a smoothed time series to represent the long-term trend of water quality. Then, SegReg was used to identify the long-term trends and change-points of the smoothed time series. Finally, statistical tests were applied to determine the significance of the long-term trends and changepoints. The efficacy of this approach was validated using a 10-year record of total nitrogen (TN) and chemical oxygen demand (COD Mn ) from Shanxi Reservoir watershed in eastern China. Results showed that this approach was straightforward and reliable for assessment of long-term trends and change-points on irregular water quality datasets.The reliability was verified by statistical tests and practical considerations for Shanxi Reservoir watershed. The newly developed integrated LWPR-SegReg approach is not only limited to the assessment of trends and change-points of water quality parameters but also has a broad application to other fields with long-term time series records.

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Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development of Water Resources in the Himalayan Headwaters of India

Cited by 60 publications

References 7 publications

Environmental changes, rural out-migration and social dynamics in Himalayas

Environmental changes, rural out-migration and social dynamics in Himalayas

Sustainable Water Management in Urban, Agricultural, and Natural Systems

Water quality trend and change-point analyses using integration of locally weighted polynomial regression and segmented regression

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