<p></p><p></p> <p>Major Ground Water Development Issues in South Asia- An Overview.- Part I. Groundwater Development Problems in Arid and Semi-Arid & Hilly Areas.- Water Management in Arid and Semi- Arid Areas of India.- Frontiers of Hardrock Hydrogeology in India.- Characterisation of a Deep Saline Aquifer Using Oil Exploration Data in an Arid Region of Rajasthan, India.- Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Hard Rock Aquifers of South Andaman and Rutland Islands, India.- Part II. Ground Water Management in Alluvial and Coastal Areas.- Groundwater Management in Alluvial, Coastal and Hilly Areas.- Findings of Large Ground Water Development Potential in Deeper Aquifers in Karnafully – Feni Interfluves, Chittagong, Bangladesh—A New Scientific Initiative.- Sustainable Water Resource Management in the Indian Sundarbans Delta.- Part III. Conservation of Ground Water.- Conservation of Water: Artificial Recharge to Groundwater.- Interrelationship Between Surface and Groundwater: The Case of West Bengal.- Integrated Watershed Management and Ground Water Recharging – Initiatives of Centre for Ground Water Studies – A Public Private Partnership Endeavour.- Part IV. Advance Research in Ground Water.- Application of Modern Geophysical Techniques for Identification of Groundwater Potential Areas.- Role of Remote Sensing and GIS in Integrated Water Resources Management.- Modeling of Aquifer System: A Tool for Groundwater Management.- Application of Environmental Isotopes in Hydrological Investigation with Case Studies.- Part V. Contaminated Ground Water & its Mitigation.- Arsenic and Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater: Mitigation Strategies.- Community-based Defluoridation of Groundwater by Electrocoagulation Followed by Activated Alumina Adsorption.- Variation of arsenic accumulation in paddy plant with special reference to rice grain and its additional entry during post harvesting technology.- Human Health Hazards due to Arsenic and Fluoride Contamination in Drinking Water and Food Chain.- Arsenic Menace in West Bengal (India) and its Mitigation through Toolbox intervention – An experience to share.- Part VI. Climate Change and its Impact in Ground Water.- Impact of Climate Change on Groundwater System.- Part VII. Community Involvement & Participatory Management.- Participatory groundwater management in the flood plains of north Bihar: Preliminary results of arsenic distribution.- Spring Protection and Management: Examples from Recent Programmes from across India’s Mountainous Regions.- Part VIII. Ground Water Development Issues & Sustainable Solutions.- Ground Water Development Issues & Sustainable Solutions.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>