Clean and Sustainable Groundwater in India

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
 Groundwater Resources and Sustainable Management Issues in India  (Dipankar Saha, Sanjay Marwaha, Arunangshu Mukherjee)....Pages 1-11
 Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater: A Pilot Study on Dug Well Recharge System for In situ Mitigation  (L. Elango, G. Jagadeshan)....Pages 13-23
 Deciphering Freshwater/Saline Water Interface in and Around Northern Chennai Region, Southern India  (M. Senthilkumar, D. Gnanasundar, E. Sampath Kumar)....Pages 25-38
 Geogenic Fluoride Contamination in Two Diverse Geological Settings in West Bengal  (S. Brahma)....Pages 39-60
 Petro-Geochemical Analysis and Their Correlation for Genesis of Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater of District Sonbhadra, U.P., India  (H. K. Pandey, S. K. Srivastava, Prashant Pandey)....Pages 61-79
 Hydrochemical Evaluation of Fluoride-Rich Groundwater in Cherlapalli Watershed, a Fluorosis Endemic Area, Nalgonda District, Telangana State  (Pandith Madhnure, P. N. Rao, K. M. Prasad, A. D. Rao, J. S. Kumar)....Pages 81-94
 Uranium Contamination of Groundwater in Southwest Parts of Punjab State, India, with Special Reference to Role of Basement Granite  (K. P. Singh, Naval Kishore, Tuli Naresh, R. S. Loyal, Kaur Mandeep, Jasbir Kaur Taak)....Pages 95-106
 Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater in Efficient Manner  (D. K. Chadha)....Pages 107-115
 Efficient Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater Can Prevent Seasonal Death of Non-Glacial Linked Rivers in Groundwater Stressed Areas  (Shashank Shekhar, Suman Kumar, Rajiv Sinha, Sanjeev Gupta, Alexander Densmore, S. P. Rai et al.)....Pages 117-124
 Specific Yield of Unconfined Aquifers in Revisiting Efficiency of Groundwater Usage in Agricultural Systems  (Himanshu Kulkarni, Uma Aslekar, Dhaval Joshi)....Pages 125-137
 Toward a Managed Aquifer Recharge Strategy for Gujarat, India: An Economist’s Dialogue with Hydro-geologists  (Tushaar Shah)....Pages 139-171
 Co-solving Groundwater Depletion and Seasonal Flooding Through an Innovative Managed Aquifer Recharge Approach: Converting Pilot to a Regional Solution in the Ram Ganga Sub-basin  (Prasun K. Gangopadhyay, Bharat R. Sharma, Paul Pavelic)....Pages 173-189
 Impact Assessment of Demonstrative Project on Artificial Recharge to Groundwater in Gangavalli Block, Salem District, Tamil Nadu  (A. Subburaj, E. Sampath Kumar, S. Suresh, V. Elanchelian, K. Rajarajan)....Pages 191-202
 Soil Infiltration Test in Hard Rock Areas—A Case Study  (S. S. Vittala, G. R. C. Reddy, K. R. Sooryanarayana, G. Sudarshan)....Pages 203-213
 Peoples’ Participation for Sustainable Groundwater Management  (Bishwadeep Ghose, Harshvardhan Dhawan, Himanshu Kulkarni, Uma Aslekar, Siddharth Patil, M. V. Ramachandrudu et al.)....Pages 215-234
 Geospatial Analysis of Recharge of Groundwater and Irrigation Draft from Different Aquifer Systems of Rajasthan, India  (Bidyut Kumar Bhadra, Rakesh Paliwal, S. Srinivasa Rao)....Pages 235-259
 Evaluation of Water Level Behavior in Coal-Mining Area, Adjacent Township, and District Areas of Jharkhand State, India  (Prasoon Kumar Singh, Ashwani Kumar Tiwari, Poornima Verma)....Pages 261-278
 Modelling the Potential Impact of Small-Scale Pumping Near Future Water Supply Wells in a Stressed Aquifer in South Western Bengal Basin on Groundwater Flow  (P. K. Sikdar, Paulami Sahu)....Pages 279-300
 Hydrodynamics of Groundwater Flow in the Arsenic-Affected Areas of the Gangetic West Bengal, India  (Abhijit Mukherjee)....Pages 301-320
 Recording High Natural Gamma Radiations in Fluoride-Prone Area of Shivpuri District, Madhya Pradesh  (Subhash C. Singh, Rakesh Singh, Parvinder Singh)....Pages 321-332
Back Matter ....Pages 333-334