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The Himalayan areas face frequent occurrence of water scarcity. There is a need for an assessment of water resources of the region. To meet the population’s water needs, existing water resources and new potential water bearing zones must be investigated. Due to high seasonal variability in river flows and very high sediment transport and monsoonal turbidity in river water in mountainous areas, indirect surface water abstraction from riverbank for drinking water production is becoming a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to the direct abstraction of river water and associated conventional treatment. However, the identification of suitable sites for indirect surface water abstraction is problematic due to limited vertical and horizontal extent of alluvial deposits. For an economical identification of potential sites, an approach combining various noninvasive techniques using geographical information system (GIS), remote sensing and groundwater flow modeling (PMWin) software has been suggested for a study area comprising a 100-km-long mountainous stretch of the Alaknanda River in the state of Uttarakhand, India, having a catchment area of 10,577 km2.
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Patwal, P.S., Patro, E.R., Islam, S.U. (2023). Water Resource Estimation and Management: Case Study of the Alaknanda River Basin. 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_14
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