Water and Energy Abstracts

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  1. Socio-Economic Effects of Landslides and Floods with a Technical Perspective

  • Author: K.M. Soni

• 2. Land-Use and Livelihood Diversity: A Survival Strategy of Agricultural Development in Western Thar Desert, India

  • Author: Bhanwar Dan Bithu

• 3. Financing of Disaster Mitigation Management in Power Sector – NHPC Perspective

  • Author: Ravi Shanker, Sandeep Kumar, Ashish K. Jha

• 4. Overview for Inter-linking of Rivers Programme in India

  • Author: C.D. Thatte

• 5. Maintenance Planning and Control of Hydro Mechanical Installations at Bhakra Dam

  • Author: D.S. Notra, B.B. Bedi, S.N. Bansal

• 6. Numerical Technique for Prediction of Temperatures in Mass Concrete Dam

  • Author: V.T. Desai, A.K. Sathe, A.V. Patil, Patil

• 7. Global Trends in Flood Losses and the Insurance Industry

  • Author: Daniel Kull

• 8. Hydrological Analysis of Severe Rainstorms in North West India

  • Author: Parmind Singh Bhogal

• 9. Dev astating Events of Cloudb u r st Leading to Landslide Disaster and Its Consequences in Garhwal Himalaya

  • Author: Kishor Kumar, Pankaj Gupta, P.K. Sikdar

• 10. Risk Management of Water-related Hazards

• 11. Disaster Management for Flood Hazard in Bhandara District Using Remote Sensing and GIS

  • Author: Y.B. Katpatal, Y.A. Dube, A.G. Bhole

• 12. Sardar Sarovar Project and the Raging Controversies

  • Author: M.S. Menon

• CASE STUDY

  13. Managing Human Issues Involved in Water Resources Development – A Case Study of Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project

  • Author: Afroz Ahmad, Suresh Chand, A.C. Gupta

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  14. Environmental Issues in Large Dam and Hydroelectric Projects

  • Author: V.P. Upadhyay

• 15. Environmental and Social Concerns of Larg e Dams and Hydropower Development – An Overview

  • Author: R.S. Goel, Ravinder Singh

• 16. Sea Changes

  • Author: Jim Baumann

• CASE STUDY

  17. Soil Moisture Estimation using ERS 2 SAR Data: A Case Study in the Solani River Catchment

  • Author: S.S. Haider, S. Said, U.C. Kothyari, M.K. Arora

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  18. Bubble Creation in Water and Water Mixtures – Consequences of the Extended Theory of Nucleation

  • Author: Frantisek Marsik, Patrik Zima

• CASE STUDY

  19. Cavitation Damages and Silt Erosion Damages of Turbine Components in Hydro Stations – A Case Study of Unit I of Upper Kolab Hydroelectric Project

  • Author: Nrusinghananda Panigrahy

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  20. Suspended and Bed Load Sediment Transport Dynamics in Two Lowland UK Streams – Storm Integrated Monitoring

  • Author: D.J. Evans, P.J. Johnes, D.S. Lawrence

• OBSERVATIONS (R&D)

  21. A Decision Tool for the Selection of Imaging Technologies to Detect Underground Infrastruc-ture

  • Author: Hyung Seok Jeong, Dulcy M. Abraham

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  22. Hydrometeorological Disaster Risk Reduction: Working Together

• 23. Flood Forecasting and Response: Reducing Flood Losses While Managing Water More Effectively

  • Author: Curtis B. Barrett

• 24. An Overview of Flood Management in India

  • Author: R. Jeyaseelan

• 25. Urban Flooding

  • Author: Carlos E.M. Tucci

• 26. Collapse of Bridges Due to Flash Flood in Arunac hal Pradesh

  • Author: R.K. Dhiman

• 27. Policies and Measures on Flood Mitigation in China since 1998

  • Author: Wan Hongtao, Cheng Xiaotao, Yuan Ximin

• 28. Flood Hazard Management in England and Wales: From Land Drainage to Flood Risk Management

  • Author: S.M. Tunstall, C.L. Johnson, E.C. Penning Rowsell

• 29. Information Technology for Mitigation of Floods

  • Author: Ram Chand

• 30. Occurrence and Mitigation of Flash Floods

  • Author: Ram Chand, P.S. Bhogal

• 31. An Actual Experience of Disastrous Floods in North India – Lessons There of

  • Author: Jagvir Goyal

• 32. Groundwater in the USA: Perception and Reality

  • Author: Stephen Ragone, Marios Sophocleous

• 33. Meteorological Data Processing and Forecasting – A Regional Perspective

  • Author: Woo-Jin Lee

• 34. Tapping the Potential of Remote Sensing and GIS for Drought Monitoring

  • Author: A.K. Mishra, V.R. Desai, V.M. Chowdary

• 35. Drought Management

• 36. Integrated Water Management for Drought Miti-gation

  • Author: R.S. Goel, G.P. Mathur

• 37. Assessment and Monitoring of Floods and Ag-ricultural Drought using Remotely Sensed Data: Indian Scenario

  • Author: M.V. Krishna Rao, V. Bhanumurthy

• 38. Climate Change and Environmental Evolution in Western China and Response Strategy

  • Author: Qin Dahe

• 39. Energy Consumption and the Earth’ s Greenhouse – An Update

  • Author: Joop F. Van de Vate

• 40. Spaceborne Radar Interfer ometry: A Promising Tool for Hydrological Analysis in Mountain Alluvial F an Environments

  • Author: F. Catani, P. Farina, S. Moretti, G. Nico

• 41. Water Balance Change for a Re-vegetated Xeroph yte Shrub Area

  • Author: Xin-Ping Wang, Ronny Berndtsson, Xin-Rong Li, Er-Si Kang

• 42. Liquid Capital

  • Author: John Briscoe

• 43. Effects of Land-use Change on Runoff Response in the Ungaug ed Ta-Chou Basin, Taiwan

  • Author: Pao-Shan Yu, Yu-Chi Wang, Chun-Chao Kuo

• 44. Incorporating Ground water Recharge and Discharge Functions into an Existing Monthly Rain-fall-Runoff Model

  • Author: D.A. Hughes

• 45. Concept of Hydrological Models to Derive Rainfall Runoff Relations and Flood Forecasting: An Over vie w

  • Author: L.P. Ingale, J.B. Turkhede

• 46. Hydrological Processes in Macrocatchment Water Harvesting in the Arid Region of Tunisia: The Traditional System of Tabias

  • Author: Slah Nasri, Jean Albergel, Christophe Cudennec, Ronny Berndtsson

• 47. First-Order Analysis of Overland Flow Buffering in an Ungauged Fragmented Upland Basin

  • Author: Alan D. Ziegler, Thomas W. Giambelluca

• 48. Surface and Subsurface Water Balance Estimation by the Ground water Recharge Model and a 3-D Two-Phase Flow Model

  • Author: Atsushi Tsutsumi, Kenji Jinno, Ronny Berndtsson

• 49. Calibrating the SEDD Model for Sicilian Ungaug ed Basins

  • Author: Vito Ferro, Costanza Di Stefano, Mario Minacacilli, Mario Santoro

• 50. Hydrological Modelling of Imperfectly Gauged Basins: A New Challenge

  • Author: Xia Jun, Tan Ge, Li Xin, Zhu Yizhong

• 51. How can Stakeholder Participation Improve European Water shed Management: The Water Frame work Directive, Water course Groups and Swedish Contributions to Baltic Sea Eutrophication

  • Author: Anna Blomqvist

• 52. Visions of Nile Basin Development

  • Author: Dale Whittington

• 53. 250 Top Energy Companies – A Worldwide Survey

  • Author: Theo Mullen, Melissa Leonard

• 54. Light at the End of the Tunnel?

  • Author: Rick Nicholson, Terry Ray

• 55. Conceptual Design of Heavy Water Moderated Organic Cooled Reactor

  • Author: S.L. Kati

• 56. An Integrated Environmental Radiological Impact Prediction Programme for Countrywide Application

  • Author: A. Natarajan, R. Venkatesan, C.V. Srinivas

• 57. A New Way to Generate Electricity from Water

  • Author: S.S. Verma

• 58. Making Independence Day

  • Author: John McCoach

• 59. New Lease of Life

  • Author: James Luckey

• 60. Pico Practice

  • Author: Arthur Williams

• 61. Time to Reform Disconnection Rules

  • Author: Matt Chwalowski

• 62. A Modern Approach

• 63. Best Practice

  • Author: James Hunt

• 64. Various Aspects of Project Management in Construction of Tala Hydroelectric Project, Contract Package-1

  • Author: S.P. Thosar, Siddhartha Dey

• 65. Hydro Development Needs Large Capacity Reservoirs

  • Author: E. Sundaraiya

• 66. Hydropower Generation through Run of the River Schemes in Yamuna Valley, Uttaranchal Himalaya, India

  • Author: R.S. Negi

• 67. Large Hydropower Plants and Reservoir Sedimentation

  • Author: E. Sundaraiya, Poonam Binjolkar

• 68. Ways and Means for Fast Track Execution of Kameng Hydroelectric Project (600 MW), Arunachal Pradesh

  • Author: D. Baruah, S. Deka, D.K. Nath

• 69. Early Riser

  • Author: Norbert Pichowski

• 70. The Complete Picture

• 71. Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Scheme – Capacity Optimisation

  • Author: A. Stephen, T. Amutha

• 72. Plugging a Leak

  • Author: Dave Simko

• 73. Removing Radar Returns

  • Author: Andrew Beck

• 74. Together to the Benefit of the Project

  • Author: A.V. Makarevytch

• 75. Hydro Generator Stator Insulation Systems

  • Author: W. Uher, J.E. Neal

• 76. Defective High Voltage Bushing – A Ticking Time Bomb

  • Author: A.K. Yadaw, Kapil Yadav

• 77. First Prepayment System in Mexico City

  • Author: Rafael Mercado

• 78. Vending at the Heart of Prepayment Management

  • Author: Kate Hopkins

• 79. Myths and Margins

  • Author: Paul Grey

• RESEARCH METHOD

  80. Keep Control from Afar

  • Author: Ginni Stieva

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  81. Prepayment – The Curacao Experience

  • Author: Keith Galatis

• 82. Customers in Hawaii Offered Net Metering

• 83. What is Holding Back Residential Implementation of Automated Meters?

  • Author: Lisa Kosanovic, Terry Fry

• 84. Beyond AMR: Technology that Enables a Dynamic Customer Relationship

  • Author: Eric Cody

• 85. Redefining AMR – From Meter Reading to Customer Communication Network

  • Author: Ronarld B. Via

• 86. Advanced Communications: The Number One Reason to Install New Meters

  • Author: Bob Hughes

• 87. Designing a 20-year AMR Device

  • Author: Tom Galuska

• 88. California Initiative May Mandate Advanced Metering

  • Author: Roger Levy

• 89. Enel Telegestore Project is on Track

  • Author: Vincenzo Cannatelli

• 90. Energy Efficiency in Municipal Street Lighting Systems

  • Author: G. Hari Kumar, Madhav Kamath

• 91. Modeling of Tunneling-induced Ground Surface Movements Using Stochastic Medium Theory

  • Author: J.S. Yang, B.C. Liu, M.C. Wang

• 92. Basis of Design of Hydrogenerator Foundation

  • Author: S. Lomash

• 93. Effect of Tunnel Advance Rate on Seepage Forces Acting on the Underwater Tunnel Face

  • Author: In-Mo Lee, Seok-Woo Nam

• REPORT (R&D)

  94. Quality in Tunnelling: ITA-AITES Working Group 16 Final Report

  • Author: Claudio Oggeri, Gunnar Ova

• RESEARCH METHOD

  95. Fast Track Tunnelling by Drilling and Blasting Method (DBM) – Some Issues

  • Author: K.D. Sah

• 96. Construction of Access Tunnel for an Underground Hydroelectric Project

  • Author: S.L. Nathan, M. Rajendiran, N. Manoharan, C. Purushothaman

• 97. Construction Methodology of 17.07 km longHead Race Tunnel Dia 9.50 m Horse Shoe Shaped Teesta Hydroelectric Project (Stage-V)

  • Author: M.P. Srivastava

• 98. Guidelines for Tunnelling Risk Management: International Tunnelling Association, Working Group No. 2

  • Author: Soren Degn Eskesen, Per Tengborg, Jorgen Kampmann, Trine Holst Veicherts

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  99. Excavation of Shafts with Special Reference to Hydroelectric Projects

  • Author: H.S. Venkatesh, R. Balachander, R.N. Gupta

• 100. Shared Watercourses in the Southern African Development Community: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Author: Salman M.A. Salman

• 101. Water for Progress

• 102. Construction of Sediment Budgets in Large-Scale Drainage Basins: The Case of the Upper Indus River

  • Author: Khawaja Faran Ali, Dirk H. De Boer

• 103. An Assessment of the Accuracy of the Spatial Integration Method (SIM) forestimating Coarse Bedload Transportin Gravel-Bedded Streams Using Tracers

  • Author: D.A. Sear, M.W.E. Lee, P.A. Carling, R.J. Oakey, M.B. Collins

• 104. Testing Laser-based Sensors for Continuous in situ Monitoring of Suspended Sediment in the Colorado River, Arizona

  • Author: Theodore S. Melis, David J.Topping, David M. Rubin

• 105. Contin uous Measurement of Suspended-Sediment Discharge in Rivers by Use of Optical Back scatterance Sensors

  • Author: David H. Schoellhamer, Scott A. Wright

• 106. Measuring Suspended Sediment Characteristics Using a LISST-ST in an Embanked Flood Plain of the River Rhine

  • Author: Ivo Thonon, Marcel Van Der Perk

• 107. Modelling and Monitoring Flow and Suspended Sediment Transportin Lowland River Flood Plain Environments

  • Author: A.P. Nicholas

• 108. Sediment Transport in Agricultural Catchments – The Need for Methods to Trace Sediment Sources

  • Author: Lillian Oygarden, Johannes Deelstra, Hans Olav Eggestad, Stine Marie Vandsemb

• 109. Land-use Based GIS-Modelling for Sedimentation Reduction at Bili-Bili Dam, Indonesia

  • Author: Muh. Nurdin Abdullah, Ahmad Munir, Syamsul Arifin Lyas

• 109. Land-use Based GIS-Modelling for Sedimentation Reduction at Bili-Bili Dam, Indonesia

  • Author: Muh. Nurdin Abdullah, Ahmad Munir, Syamsul Arifin Lyas

• 110. Method for Estimation of the Delivery of Sediments and Solutes from Greenland to the Ocean

  • Author: Bent Hasholt

• 111. Use of Reconnaissance Measurements to Establish Catchment Sediment Budgets: A Zambian Example

  • Author: D.E. Walling, A.L. Collins, H.M. Sichingabula, G.J.L. Leeks

• 112. Identification of Sources of Sediment to Lake Samsonvale (North Pine Dam), Southeast Queensland, A ustralia

  • Author: Grant Douglas, Phillip Ford, Gary Jones, Mark Palmer

• CASE STUDY

  113. Chronology of Alluvial Sediment Using the Date of Production of Buried Refuse: A Case Study in an Ungauged River in Central Japan

  • Author: Yoshimasa Kurashige, Hajime Kibayashi, Goro Nakajima

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  114. Sediment Yield Estimation and Chec k Dams in a Semiarid Area (Sierra de Gador, Southern Spain)

  • Author: Wenceslao Martin-Rosales, Antonio Pulido-Bosch, Juan Gisbert, Angela Vallejos

• 115. Reconstructing Upland Sediment Budgets in Ungauged Catchments from Reservoir Sedimentation and Rainfall Records Calibrated Using Short term Streamflow Monitoring

  • Author: Victoria Holliday, David Higgitt, Jeff Warburton, Sue White

• 116. Application of the Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution (AGNPS) Model for Sediment Yield and Nutrient Loss Prediction in the Dumpul Subwater shed, Central Java, Indonesia

  • Author: Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

• 117. Reliability Ev aluation of Rainfall-Sediment-Runoff Models

  • Author: Takahiro Sayama, Kaoru Takara, Yasuto Tachikawa

• 118. Sediment Monitoring of Glacial Rivers in Iceland: New Data on Bed Load Transport

  • Author: Jorunn Hardardottir, Arni Snorrason

• 119. They Might be Giants

• 120. Resilience and Flood Risk Management

  • Author: K.M. de Bruijn

• 121. Flood Forecasting and Infiltration Modelling

  • Author: Corrado Corradini, Renato Morbidelli, Carla Saltalippi, Florisa Melone

• 122. The Water Sector and the Natural Disasters– Can Natural Disasters Prevent Development?

  • Author: G. Arduino

• 124. Sedimentation Problems in Reservoirs – Causes Prevention and Remedies

  • Author: I.D. Dayal, Rajeev Sachdeva

• 123. Need for Development of Hydropower and Dams in India Highlighting the associated Environmental Issues

  • Author: S.C. Sharma, Napur Kakoty

• 124. Sedimentation Problems in Reservoirs – Causes Prevention and Remedies

  • Author: I.D. Dayal, Rajeev Sachdeva

• 125. Improving Ponds in Punjab

• 126. Moving Small Mountains

• 127. Large Dams and Hydropower Development-Private Sector Participation

  • Author: D.K. Dhar

• 128. Hirakud Dam in Economic Development of Orissa

  • Author: R.K. Sharma, B. Lenka

• 129. Instrumentation and Monitoring Systems in Tehri Dam

  • Author: B.S. Bisht, H.K. Tyagi, D.V. Sharma

• 130. Geotechnical Assessment of Foundation for a Gravity Dam in the Lesser Himalaya of Jammu and Kashmir

  • Author: Mohd. J. Ahmed, U.S. Rajvanshi, K.M. Mustafa

• 131. Dispensing with the Structural Supports of Pressure Tunnels by Impro ving Rock Cover – A Few Examples

  • Author: R. Pitchai Muthu

• 134. Feed Water and Wastewater Treatment

  • Author: Arabi Enertech

• 132. Perspective International Efforts to Improve Access to Water and Sanitation in the Developing World: A Good Start, But More is Needed

  • Author: Alan D. Hecht

• 133. Thorough Planning Beforehand Ensures AMR Project Success

  • Author: Kate Hopkins

• 134. Feed Water and Wastewater Treatment

  • Author: Arabi Enertech

• 135. A Distributed Model for Estimating Erosion and Deposition of Sediment in the Yellow River Basin

  • Author: Z.X. Xu, K. Takeuchi, H. Ishidaira, C.M. Liu

• 136. Erosion Prediction in Ungauged Glacierized Basins

  • Author: Jim Bogen, Truls E. Bonsnes

• 137. Soil Erosion in the Republic of Moldova – The Importance of Institutional Arrangements

  • Author: Wolfgang Summer, Wolfgang Diernhofer

• 138. Estimation of Erosion and Sediment Outflow in the Recent Past

  • Author: Takahisa Mizuyama, Akitsu Kimoto, Yuji Yasuda, Yasuo Tomomatsu, Masaru Touhei, Masaharu Fujita

• 139. Mathematical Model for Predicting Soil Erosion by Flowing Water in Ungauged W ater sheds

  • Author: U.C. Sharma, Vikas Sharma

• 140. Physically-based Mathematical Formulation for Hillslope-Scale Prediction of Erosion in Ungauged Basins

  • Author: Hafzullah Aksoy, M. Levent Kavvas, Jaeyoung Yoon

• 141. Evaluation of an Erosion Simulation Model in a Semiarid Region of Brazil

  • Author: Vajapeyam S. Srinivasan, Ricardo De Aragao, Koichi Suzuki, Masahiro Watanabe

• 142. Application of a Process-based Model as a Predictive Tool for Erosion Loss in Ungauged Basins

  • Author: Celso Augusto Guimaraes Santos, Vajapeyam S. Srinivasan, Carlos De Oliveira Galvao

• 143. Application of an Improved PEEP System to Bank Erosion In vestigations on the River Wharfe, UK

  • Author: Damian M. Lawler

• 144. Quantitative Estimation of Degradation in the Aliakmon River Basin Using GIS

  • Author: Dimitrios A. Emmanouloudis, Odysseas P. Christou, Evangelos I. Filippidis

• 145. Applicability of the Gavrilo vic Method in Erosion Calculation Using Spatial Data Manipulation Techniques

  • Author: Lidija Globevnik, Danko Holjevic, Gregor Petkovsek, Josip Rubinic

• 146. Assessment of Gully Erosion Process Dynamics for Water Resources Management in a Semiarid Catchment of Swaziland (Southern Africa)

  • Author: Michael Marker, Aleksey Sidorchuk

• 147. Development of an Interactive Embeddable Geographic Information System (E-GIS) for Soil Erosion Prediction

  • Author: Ahmad Munir, Muh. Nurdin Abdullah

• 148. Mix Design Performance of M 12.5 Grade Mass Concrete for 92 m High Wangkha Dam in Bhutan

  • Author: Rajbal Singh, D.P. Goyal, R.N. Khazanchi