Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia - Chapter 7 docx

... level leads to intrusion of saline water far into the land mass through the rivers draining into the sea and it also increases ground water contamination by making water saline. Saline water M. LAL ... to examine the likely changes in intra-seasonal and inter-annual variability in summer monsoon over Central India (land points only confined to latitudes 18 o N and 30 o N an...

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... pp.6 7- 8 4. Downing, T. E. (ed): Climate Change and World Food Security, Springer, Berlin, 1996, 662 pages. Downing, T. E., Ringius, L, Hulme, M. and Waughray, D.: “Adapting to Climate Change in ... “Adapting to Climate Change: A Case Study on Riverine Flood Risks in the Netherlands”. In R. S. J. Tol and A. A. Olsthoorn (eds.), Floods, Flood Management and Climate...

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... public and private water delivery systems with appropriate legal and financial measures and incentives, including delineation of water rights and water pricing; • To bring institutional changes ... sweet water capture fisheries resources are dependent on inland water bodies. The annual flooding and post-flood standing water in the floodplains has a significant role...

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... xxiii 1 CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES IN SOUTH ASIA: AN INTRODUCTION M. Monirul Qader Mirza Q. K. Ahmad 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Water Availability and Demand in South Asia 2 1.3 Climate Change and ... Warming and Changes in the Probability of Occurrence of Floods in Bangladesh and Implications. Global Environmental Change 12 (2002), pp.12 7- 1 38....

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... sediment transport and morphological changes; estimating ground water and changes in ground water volume; forecasting flood volume, depth and duration; assessing changes in land-use; and assessing impacts of changes ... available water resource can be moved from point to point to meet various demands. The Indus basin was divided into 57 nodes and 70 links, including 30 d...

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... Hardinge Bridge Change (+) Change (+) Change (+) No Change The Kosi Barahkshetra No Change No Change No Change No Change Pandu Change (-) Change (-) Change (-) Change (-) The Bhahmaputra ... Kruskal-Wallis Mann-Whitney U Deviation Ratio a . Peak Discharge Hardwar Change (-) Change (-) Change (-) Change (-) The Ganges Farakka No...

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... Ganges-Brahmaputra Lowlands and Delta? Mountain Research and Development 7( 3) (19 87) , pp.25 6-2 63. Hofer, T.: Do Land-Use Changes in the Himalayas Affect Downstream Flooding: Traditional Understanding ... (2003), pp.3 5-6 4. Mirza, M. M. Q and Dixit, A.: Climate Change and Water Resources in the GBM Basins. Water Nepal 5(1) (19 97) , pp .7 1-1 00. Mirza, M. M...

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... a great Indo-Gangetic and Brahmaputra Plain. The water demand for agriculture, industry and urban sector in Nepal, India and Bangladesh is progressively growing and a decline in snow cover would ... Regional Background and National Case Studies, Water Resource in South Asia: An Assessment of Climate Change - Associated Vulnerabilities and Coping Mechanisms, A...

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... Presented in the Workshop on Democratization in Latin America and South Asia- Creating and Revitalizing Democratic Institutions: Context and Challenge in Latin America and South Asia, 1 8-2 0 April ... (http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl 171 0/ 171 01300.htm). Frontline 17( 10) (2000). Menon, V. and Kadvi, S.: Taking the Stock: Natural Disasters in India (www.infocha...

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... 1.1 2.1 3.5 5 .7 8.9 12 .7 16.3 19.6 22.4 24 .7 Year 0.4 0.9 1.2 1 .7 2.2 2 .7 3.3 4.2 5.6 7. 0 Dec-Feb -0 .9 -1 .8 -2 .4 -3 .6 -4 .6 -5 .7 -6 .9 -8 .9 -1 1.8 -1 4.8 Mar-May 0.4 0 .7 1.0 1.4 1.8 ... understanding of the impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin. Climate change will result in an increa...

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