Improving GWL

Overview

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Many parts of India are already water stressed and this may worsen due to climate variability impacts. Therefore it is important to increase the efficiency of water use, explore options to augment water supply in critical areas, and ensure more effective management of water resources. Ground water, the most dependable source, is under tremendous stress in the form of rapidly declining quantity and quality due to non-judicious overuse mainly by the Indian agriculture. Accurate assessment of water balance across various hydrologic reservoirs is essential to understand and tackle water related issues. This warrants better predictive tools for root zone soil moisture at field-scale where water management decisions are made. This project targets development of representative digital watersheds/ catchments and underlying aquifers in eastern India for better understanding of their characteristic spatio-temporal dynamics and water balance across various hydrologic reservoirs and their underlying cause/effect relationships. Soil water balance and aquifer recharge and recovery are being monitored at different spatial and temporal scales. Innovative stormwater management, agricultural water management, conjunctive use and aquifer recharge techniques are being evaluated for reversing the declining trend of groundwater quantity and quality. This project will provide a unifying global scheme/ technique for forecasting daily root zone soil moisture status maps at the field-scale by using various satellite/ insitu data, and will develop efficient agricultural water management scheme for improving the water use efficiency and recharge of aquifers. Finally, a Decision Support System will be developed for determination of best practices for existing and proposed scenarios of water resources management in eastern India.

Mentors/Collaborators

MENTORS:

  • Prof. Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Dr. P K Mishra, Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Dehradun

COLLABORATORS:

  • Prof. Suranjan Panigrahi, University West Lafayette , USA
  • Dr. Ajay Pradhan, C2S2 New Delhi
  • Mr. G. P. Pattanaik, Ex. Engg. Agg. Dept. Odisha
  • Mr. S. K. Pattnaik , Asst Er., GW Survey & Invst., Govt. of Odisha
  • Odisha State Agriculture Dept. vi. Directorate of Groundwater Survey & Investigation, Bhubaneswar
  • Dr. A. K. Behera, Overseas Proj & Services, Bhubaneswar

Key Outcomes


(7 )
Title: IT based draft e-course for assessment of impact of climate variability on water resources
Institutes: IIT-BHUB
Links/URL: http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/mtech-climate-science-and-technology.php

Title: Master's Degree Programme in Water Resources Engineering
Institutes: KIIT-BHUB

Remarks: Enrollment: 6 Started from year 2017
Approval obtained from the Statutory Bodies i.e. from UGC and AICTE

Title: An elective course on "IT for Land and Water Management”
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Formulated and introduced in the UG course curriculum of B.Tech Agri. Engineering

Title: New elective course titled Integrated Watershed Management
Institutes: IIT-BHUB

Remarks: Enrollemnt: 15 (UG + PG)
Civil Engineering curriculum

Links/URL: http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/m.tech.-water-resources-engineering.php

Title: New elective course titled Water Resources Systems
Institutes: IIT-BHUB

Remarks: Enrollemnt: 15 (UG + PG)
Civil Engineering curriculum

Links/URL: http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/btech-curriculum-elective-civil.php

Title: M.Tech program on Water Resources Engineering
Institutes: IIT-BHUB

Remarks: Enrollemnt: 15

Links/URL: http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/m.tech.-water-resources-engineering.php

Title: An elective course on Information Technology in Land and Water Management
Institutes: CAET-OUAT- BHUB

Remarks: Under graduation level of College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology from 2016.

(4 )
Title: Hydrometeorology laboratory
Institutes: IIT-BHUB

Remarks: Room no.:124, School of Infrastructure

Title: Field lysimeteric laboratory
Institutes: IIT-KGP
Title: Field digital lysimetric laboratory
Institutes: CAET-OUAT- BHUB

Remarks: At Instructional Farm

Title: Field soil moisture sensing lab
Institutes: CAET-OUAT- BHUB

Remarks: To be installed shortly in experimental site, OUAT, Bhubaneswar

(4 )
Title: Irrigation Engineering

Remarks: For B. Tech. Agricultural Engineering

Title: Remote Sensing & GIS Application

Remarks: For B. Tech. Agricultural Engineering

Title: Micro Irrigation System Design

Remarks: For B. Tech. Agricultural Engineering

Title: Gulley & Ravine Control Structures

Remarks: For B. Tech. Agricultural Engineering

(2 )
Title: Water quality laboratory
Institutes: IIT-KGP
Title: A lab Manual on installation and use of digital lysimeter is under process
Institutes: CAET-OUAT- BHUB
(1 )
Title: A Decision Support System (DSS) for Groundwater Development and Management

Remarks: The developed technology is under rigorous testing in the pilot study area in the state of Odisha. After successful testing, the patent/copyright will be filled.

(7 )
Title: Awareness course on Improved Irrigation System for Enhancing Water use Efficiency of Horticultural Crops
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Participants: 30 participants including farmers NGOs’, Government officials and 5 farmers from Rana watershed
Date : 29th -30th January, 2015

Title: Awareness course cum farmers meet :Water and Fertilizer Application Strategies for Improving Crop Productivity
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Participants: 60 participants (farmers, NGO'S, Government officials)
Date: 17th June, 2015

Title: Awareness course on Groundwater Recharge and Subsurface Storage
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Participants: 50
Date: June 21, 2016

Title: Short-term Course on "Soil Moisture and Soil Hydraulic Properties at Micro and Macro Scales for Water Resources Management" under the GIAN program
Institutes: IIT-BHUB

Remarks: Participants: 37
Date: Dec. 26-30, 2016

Title: Training courses on Micro irrigation for the Officers of the Water Resources Investigation and Development Department, Department of Agriculture & Horticulture, Govt. of West Bengal for implementation of PMKSY scheme of Govt. of India.
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Participants: 50
Date: 26th- 27th September, 2016

Title: Training courses on Micro irrigation for the Officers of the Water Resources Investigation and Development Department, Department of Agriculture & Horticulture, Govt. of West Bengal for implementation of PMKSY scheme of Govt. of India.
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Participants: 40
Date: 10th -11th November, 2016

Title: Exposure-cum-training programme on applications of geospatial technology in agriculture
Institutes: CAET-OUAT- BHUB

Remarks: For faculty members and students
Participants: 75
Date: 10th to 14th October, 2017

(7 )
Title: Fresh Water Crises: Concepts and Solutions and on "Monitoring of non-point source pollution

Remarks: A brain storming session was conducted for undergraduate B. Tech. (Agricultural Engineering) Students in DYPCAET (MPKV, Rahuri, Maharashtra) and in SCAET (MPKV, Rahuri, Maharashtra)
Participants: 40
Date: 10th – 11th Dec, 2014

Title: Brainstorming Workshop on IT Based Curriculum Development in Water at School of Civil Engineering
Institutes: KIIT-BHUB

Remarks: Participants: 45
Date: 19-12-2015

Title: Awareness and Sensitization Workshop on Soil-Water Measurements for Water Management
Institutes: KIIT-BHUB

Remarks: At School of Civil Engineering
Participants: 50
Date: 12-12-2015

Title: A student sensitization programme
Institutes: CAET-OUAT- BHUB

Remarks: Date: December 8, 2015

Title: Student's sensitization program
Institutes: CAET-OUAT- BHUB

Remarks: Participants: 84
Date: 19th Febraury, 2016

Title: Workshop on Development of Business plan, "ITRA-START: ITRA STARTUPS”
Institutes: KIIT-BHUB

Remarks: Participants: 40
Date: 04-05-2016

Title: : A farmer's workshop was conducted in the site nearer to the test bed location with agriculture expert
Institutes: KIIT-BHUB

Remarks: Participants: 60
Date:26-06-2016

(2 )
Title: Awareness course on "Improved Irrigation System for Enhancing Water use Efficiency for Horticultural Crops

Remarks: Year: January 29 -30, 2015

Title: Farmers Meet on "Water and Fertilizer Application Strategies for Improving Crop Productivity”
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Conducted at Krishnanagar, Nadia, West Bengal
Participants: 60
Year: June17, 2015

(3 )
Title: Bokaro Steel Plant
Title: Tata Steel Ltd
Title: CH2M
(6 )
Title: Groundwater Survey & Invest., Govt. of Odisha

Remarks: Collaboration Area: High spatio-temporal groundwater level data base development

Title: Odisha Lift Irrigation Corporation
Title: Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Odisha

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Sustainable groundwater development and management

Title: State Micro Irrigation Committee, Govt of West Bengal

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Micro irrigation

Title: Member Research Advisory Committee, Directorate of Water Management (ICAR), Bhubaneswar (2012-14)

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Research and academic exchange in the different sectors of the water resources engineering

Title: State Agri. dept., DGWSI

Remarks: Collaboration Area: High spatio-temporal groundwater level data base development

(2 )
Title: Service: Technical guidance

Remarks: There are a large number NGOs associated with us to take up Micro Irrigation & Improved Greenhouse technologies to farmers
Offered to: You and I Kolkata, Mahindra Samruddhi, Yogita biotech

Title: OPSL, NGO

Remarks: OPSL is a collaborator in the project, which is helping the team for baseline survey of the villages

(1 )
Title: Texas A & M

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Prof. B. P. Mohanty is the international mentor for the project and he is regularly involve in research activities and experimental designs.

(1 )
Title: App based DSS

Remarks: Transferred to: The technology has been demonstrated to the watershed development department of Govt of Odisha, India and CGWB research scientists and they have already shown interest in transferring the developed technology to other parts of the state and finally to other states with suitable modifications.

(9 )
Title: Ministry of Water Resources, Govt of India

Remarks: Identification, quantification and control of non-point source pollution of water resources from agricultural watersheds
2001

Title: Department of Science & Tech, Govt. of India and DFG, Germany

Remarks: Assessment of non-point source pollution of soil and water resources using the AVSWAT model in an agricultural watershed in Eastern India
2008

Title: Ministry of Water Resources, Govt of India

Remarks: Optimal management of irrigation water under deficit condition
1996

Title: SRIC, IIT, Kharagpurc

Remarks: Rain water harvesting of IIT, Kharagpur campus
2001

Title: Bokaro Steel Ltd., SAIL, Bokaro

Remarks: Rainwater harvesting for Bokaro, Steel Plant, SAIL, Bokaro
2012

Title: S.E. Railway, Kharagpur

Remarks: Feasibility study and design of a radial collector well system in Kansbati river for S.E. Railway, Kharagpur
2010

Title: Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Pvt. Limited, West Midnapore, WB

Remarks: Rainwater harvesting at BRBNMPL campus, Salboni
2009

Title: Tata Steel Ltd., Noamundi

Remarks: Study of effect of mining activities on surrounding water quality
2007

Title: Tata Metaliks campus, Kharagpur

Remarks: Rainwater harvesting at Tata Metaliks campus, Kharagpur
2010

(6 )
Title: West Bengal State Micro irrigation Committee

Remarks: Prof. K. N. Tiwari, Member
Year: 2014

Title: Institute Management Committee of Directorate of Water Management, ICAR, Bhubaneswar

Remarks: Prof. K. N. Tiwari, Member
Year: 2014

Title: Research Advisory Committee Directorate of Water Management, ICAR, Bhubaneswar

Remarks: Prof. K. N. Tiwari Member
Year: 2012-14

Title: West Bengal State Micro irrigation Committee

Remarks: Prof. K. N. Tiwari, Member
Year: 2015

Title: CDAP

Remarks: Dr. B C Sahoo appointed as a member
Year: 2015

Title: Dr. N Sahoo and Dr. A P Sahu are involved in watershed evaluation team by the university

Remarks: Year: 2015

Institutions

IIT-BHUB - Lead Institution IIT-KGP - Partner Institution CAET-OUAT- BHUB - Partner Institution KIIT-BHUB - Partner Institution

Team Members

Publications


1.

Spatio?Temporal Analysis of Soil Moisture and Optimal Sampling Design for Regional Scale Soil Moisture Estimation in a Tropical Watershed of India
Singh, G., Panda, R. K., Mohanty, B. P.; Water Resources Research;2019
2.

Validation of SMAP Soil Moisture Products using Ground-based Observations for the Paddy Dominated Tropical Region of India
Singh, G., Das, N.N., Panda, R. K., Colliander, A., Jackson, T., Mohanty, B.P., Entekhabi, D., Yueh, S.; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing;2019
3.

Grid-cell based assessment of soil erosion potential for identification of critical erosion prone areas using USLE, GIS and remote sensing: A case study in the Kapgari watershed, India
Singh G., Panda R.K.; International Soil and Water Conservation Research;2017
4.

Groundwater Recharge Variability under Climate Change Scenarios in Eastern India
Jena, S., Panda, R. K; 7th International Groundwater Conference on Groundwater Vision 2030. (Accepted for Oral Presentation);2017
5.

Impact of abandoned opencast mines on hydrological processes of the Olidih watershed in Jharia coalfield, India
V. T. Shinde, K. N. Tiwari, M. Singh, B. Uniyal; Environmental Processes;2017
6.

Improving water and fertilizer use efficiency using microirrigation
K. N. Tiwari; Journal of Indian Water Resources Society;2017
7.

Banana Bunch Covers for Quality Banana Production-A Review
DT Santosh, KN Tiwari, RG Reddy; International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences;2017