Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization. Growing population and expanding economic activities exert increasing demands on water for varied needs--domestic, industrial, agricultural, power generation, navigation, recreation, etc.

Section 1: Water Resources Planning.- Integrated River Basin Planning and Development — Some Case Studies.- Conjunctive Irrigation in the Humid Alluvial Plains — Imperativeness and Issues.- Planning Considerations for Water Resources Development in Haor Areas of North-Eastern Bangladesh.- Optimal Irrigation Planning.- Local Level Planning of Small Water Resource Schemes in a Developing Country.- Section 2: Water Resources Development.- Large Scale Exploitation of Water Resources: Case of the Southeastern Anatolia Project in Turkey.- Rational Approach to Sustainable Water Resources Development of Nepal.- Section 3: Water-Resource System Operation and Management.- Modelling for Reservoir Operation for Irrigation.- Generalized Headworks Simulation Modelling: The Australian Experience.- Optimum Reservoir Systems Operations, Review of Stochastic Models.- An Optimization Model for Multipurpose Multi-Reservoir, Screening, with Explicit System Yield Reliability Consideration.- Optimal Operating Rule for Reservoir with Hydropower Generation and Irrigation.- Application of Stochastic Dynamic Programming for Reservoir Operation — A Case Study of Narmada Sagar Reservoir.- Irrigation Systems Management — Needs and Opportunities.- Irrigation System Performance: Concepts, Indicators, Standards and application.- Can Protective Irrigation be More Efficient?.- Section 4: Remote Sensing in Water Resources Investigations.- Potential of Remote Sensing in Applied Hydrology.- Remote Sensing as a Tool in Hydrology and Water Resources.- Application of Various Transformations for Land Use Classification in Digital Image Processing.- Relationship between Forest Cover and Drainage Density in a Typical Rainforest: An Investigation Using Satellite Data.- Utility of Remote Sensing Techniquesin Landslide Investigations: An Appraisal.- Section 5: Hydraulic Hazards and Their Control.- Hydrologic Safety and Rehabilitation of Old Dams.- Hydrological Design of Low Dams in Kandi Area (Mirzapur Dam).- Hydrologic Design of Cross Drainage Works on Kandi Canal.- Influence of Rainfalls on the Landslides Occurred in Basilicata (Italy) in 1973.- Section 6: Environmental Consequences of Water Resources Projects.- Environmental Impact Assessment of Artificial Reservoirs.- Physical and Biological Implications of Water Transfer: A Case Study of California.- Hydrological Impacts of the Pathakhali Konai Beel Project.

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