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Watershed prioritization, particularly in the context of watershed plans and management programmes, is part of the water resources development. Actually, morphometric analysis aided by geospatial technology is accomplished in prioritizing sub-watersheds according to their natural features of availability of resources. The information relating to the study area's geomorphology and erosion factors are used in the area and to prepare the local models of the ungauged seven sub-watersheds, which otherwise lack adequate hydrological database. The region under investigation has observed the rising increases in the groundwater table. As a result of the failure to look at the interrelated criteria that influence water-show planning, the watershed development plans so far implemented in the region fail. For this respect, for the pre-oral measurement of seven sub-sheds, the integrated methodology involving morphometric aspects derived from geo-spatial technology is used. The basic mathematical equations used in a GIS setting have been used to measure a series of the aspects of hydrology in the rotation, stream order, stream length, stream frequency, drainage densities, texture ratio, shape factor, circulatory ratio, elongation ratio, bifurcation and compactness ratioArcGIS10.3 was used to perform the geospatial research. The results divided the entire watershed into four priority areas, namely Big, medium, small, and very weak. The results are relevant in order to establish soil and water conservation plans in the Man river basin in Akola and Buldhana districts in Central Indian, as well as inadequate production and management of groundwater.
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Moharir, K., Pande, C., Patode, R.S., Nagdeve, M.B., Varade, A.M. (2021). Prioritization of Sub-watersheds Based on Morphometric Parameter Analysis Using Geospatial Technology. In: Pandey, A., Mishra, S., Kansal, M., Singh, R., Singh, V. (eds) Water Management and Water Governance. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 96. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58051-3_2
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