Water Resource Projects And Environmental Impacts

This book discusses the environmental impact of water resources projects. Information from literature related to the implementation of studies on water resources projects such as dams and reservoirs, channelization, and dredging are summarized. Other topics covered are methodologies, transport, and decision-making.

book present one of the few balanced treatments of the very controversial topic-environmental impact of water resources projects.

Contents: Environmental Impact of Water Resources Projects, Study Area, Upstream Impacts, Inundation, Seismicity and Hydro-electricity, Sedimentation, Recreation, Health, Aquaculture, Reservoir Water Quality, Impacts of Irrigation, Land Use, Soil, Agriculture, Ground Water Quality, Health, Socio-economics, Forestry, Industry and Water supply, Geographic Information System: An Introduction, SRPIS: An Overview, Architecture of SRPIS (User s Guide), SRPIS Reference Guide, SRPIS in Future, Conclusions and Recommendations.

Water is increasingly viewed as one of the major global resource issues of the 1990s. This reference offers international coverage of water quality management and enviornmental issues, and presents data on waterlogging, sedimentation and fisheries