This is a very useful book in the subject `Water Management` for undergraduate & post graduate students. It is also very useful for practising engineers, farmers and policy-makers.

This book has various chapters dealing with Hydrological cycle, Groundwater occurrence, Water losses and its prevention, Water conservation, Rainwater harvesting, Artificial recharge methods, etc. Other topic....     View More Details

Man has always known that air (oxygen) and water are the two most important items for life. Yet, few people are aware of the scientific facts regarding water. In a sense, water is a weird compound of nature. Man being highly selfish exploiting the natural resource like water and also making water bodies getting polluted.

The present work is an attempt to bring awareness among public ab....     View More Details

GIS is the core of a powerful digital technology. It has great importance in the modern world because every activity of human beings on the earth is associated with a geographic location. The technology of Geographic Information System (GIS) is spread over the domains of several disciplines such as Mathematics, Cartography, Computer sciences, Remote sensing, Statistics, Environmental sciences ....     View More Details

The author has a long experience of teaching (Two decades) to the students of Civil Engineering. The present book based on this experience. The language of the book is simple and suitable sketches have been given throughout to illustrate the subject matter clearly. The questions which are important from the student's point of view have been given at the end of each chapter.

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A basic textbook on geotechnical earthquake engineering. It is lucidly written and is suitable for undergraduate as well as first year postgraduate course in civil engineering with soil mechanics and foundation engineering at undergraduate level as prerequisite.

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• Subject matter is organised logically to make it easy and interesting for the students.
• Em....     View More Details

This book is suitably designed for Polytechnic students of N-E, region in particular and in general for students all over India with the intention of fulfilling the mission of promoting environmental education and culture, as well serves as a textbook for full time courses in the educational institutions. The book introduces the basic concepts of environment, its physical features and human in....     View More Details

This book thoroughly covers syllabus for IV semester B.E. Civil/Transportation Engineering as prescribed by VTU. Both the theoretical and practical aspects of Engineering Geology are elaborated. Besides, this book comprises Model question paper and Viva-voce questions with answers. This manual will also be useful as a reference book to Engineers, Mineralogists and others.....     View More Details

The challenges before the Agricultural Scientists of our country today are much more complex than even before. The first issue and the cause of some major problems in the future - the depletion of the ozone layer, threatens the inhabitants of Earth due to the advent of harmful ultraviolet radiation. The second issue - global warming and the plight of Antarctica, involves the melting of pola....     View More Details

This book has been designed in accordance and within the framework of the module syllabus of UPTU, on Environmental Studies. It will fulfill the basic need of the hour for a standard textbook for the course on Environment and Ecology for the undergraduate students of various disciplines-arts, science, commerce, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, management, law etc.

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This book has been thoroughly revised and updated in its present Seventh Edition. Striking a neat balance between environmental chemistry and environmental chemical analysis, the book explains the various dimensions of environmental chemistry including latest concepts and developments in the subject with global and user-friendly approach. 

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The book introduces to the reader all aspects of ground water i.e., its assessment, development, utilisation and management. Practical application of different formulae for field conditions, data collection and processing, test procedures and principles of design are worked out to illustrate the theory and design procedure.

The revised edition includes case studies of Pump Test Data in ....     View More Details

Powder metallurgy is expanding its field of activities to include metals, alloys, intermetallics, ceramics and composites. Powder metallurgy products are finding increasing applications in automotive, machine tool, electrical, electronic and other engineering industries.

The book contains selected 36 papers in the following sections

• Trends in powder metallurgy.
• Po....     View More Details

The book is much more than a mere list of uses of the metals and metallic minerals, which historically and contemporarily occupy a very important place in the civilization of human race and in the day-to-day human life. Uses of metals have been projected along with their backward linkages with history, recovery from minerals and particular sets of physical/chemical characteristics and with the....     View More Details

This book written by top level experts in seismology and disaster management has been written for  students of Seismology, Geophysics, Geography and Management courses. Although the book has included latest developments about the subjects, the content can be generally understood by even nonspecialists. Through 12 chapters, the book discusses about causes of earthquakes, natural as well as indu....     View More Details

This book is the outcome of the authors long teaching experience and has been designed to meet the needs of Civil Engineering curricula for the courses in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering of Indian Universities. The book has been written mainly in the S.I. Units, although some problems and examples in the M.K.S. system have been included for convenience during the period of transition....     View More Details

An attempt is made to place before students (degree and post-degree) and professionals in the fields of Civil and Agricultural Engineering, Geology and Earth Sciences, this important branch of Hydroscience, i.e., Hydrology. It deals with all phases of the Hydrologic cycle and related topics in a lucid style and in metric system. There is a departure from empiricism, with emphasis on collection....     View More Details

RIVER MORPHOLOGY synthesizes the contributions made by geologists, geomorphologists, geographers, hydraulic engineers and hydrologists and presents a coherent text which takes a balanced view about formation on alluvial rivers and their hydraulics, and analysis of their response to natural and man-made disturbances. The text covers discussion about history of fluvial hydraulics and geom....     View More Details

The book is about much more than a mere list of uses of the energy minerals, which are the most important concerns of one and all now-a-days. In this book, all the eight energy minerals have been brought within one cover. The book traces the history of use of each mineral to its beginning in India, as well as in the other parts of the world; it explains the reasons why a particular grade of a ....     View More Details

Water Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control is a book providing comprehensive information on the fundamentals and latest developments in the field of water pollution.

The book is divided into 28 chapters covering almost all the aspect of water pollution including water resources and general properties of water; history of water pollution and legislation; origin, sources and effects....     View More Details

Irrigation is practiced from time immemorial in one form or the other. Now a situation has reached when land, water and power resources are a scarce commodity. Increase in population coupled with potential infrastructure requirement has greatly strained the scarce resources. The book explains how proper planning canal network and OFD works can save the national resources and affect of ill plan....     View More Details