The physico-chemical properties of water and sediments therein were analyzed for assessing the suitability of Siddheshwar dam (India) waters for irrigation purpose. The physical parameters include total dissolved solids and electrical conductivity. The chemical parameters studied include pH, free carbon dioxide, total hardness, calcium hardness, magnesium hardness, phenolphthalein alkalinity, t...

This paper investigates the impact of dams on infant mortality using 32 waves of DHS data that have GPS locations of households. This allows us to estimate the impact of dams on households that reside upstream, downstream, and within its immediate vicinity. We use a sample of over 400,000 children in 17 countries in Africa. In contrast to earlier research on the impact of dams on agricultural p...

In the far north of Uttar Pradesh Province in the Indian Himalayas; the 280 MW Dhauliganga hydroelectric power plant is under construction by National Hydroelectric Power Corporation ( NHPC ), a stateowned enterprise; and a joint venture of Kajima Corporation of Tokyo and Daewoo Corporation of Seoul. This project sets out to develop the lower section of the mountain cascade of the Dhauliganga r...

Oral Presentations 881 Sponsored Sessions 900 Poster Presentations 902 Index 912 8th World Congress on Itch (WCI) 2015 September 27–29, 2015 at the Nara Kasugano International Forum IRAKA, Nara, Japan N A RA JA PA N 2 015 8th World Co ng re ss o n I t c h

BACKGROUND Cyanobacteria are common components of phytoplankton communities in most freshwater ecosystems. Proliferations of cyanobacteria are often caused by high nutrient loading, and as such can serve as indicators of declining water quality. Massive industrialization in developing countries, like India, has polluted fresh water bodies, including wetlands. Many industries directly discard th...

Investment in the small-scale enhancement of groundwater recharge through check dams and other structures rural India is on order USD 1 billion/year. However, for any catchment, optimal capacity unknown, impacts downstream flows are rarely determined. This paper describes a method that can be applied to plan augmentation catchments have at least one monitored dam. It was Dharta catchment Araval...

Abstract Long-term geomorphic evolution of rivers depends both on the amount sediment supply and river’s ability to transport that sediment. Climate change is anticipated flow frequency distributions yield could thus alter trajectory many regulated rivers. We aim examine possible response upper Godavari River, India, climate using two well-accepted metrics: sediment-transporting flows (T*) rati...