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Rural Water Resources Management

By Prof. Pennan Chinnasamy   |   IIT Bombay
Learners enrolled: 2059
Water is the most important resource in India, given India is still an agrarian nation and most industries need water. India is the highest extractor of groundwater in the world and it is necessary to understand water resource issues and concerns so that water resources management activities can be scientifically formulated and validated. A focused course on water management is necessary to sensitize the students on the actual issues and how to manage, adapt and mitigate. In addition, good water management is key for attaining sustainable development goals, protecting a country against climate change extremes and for promoting industrial growth in India.

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INTENDED AUDIENCE Students in Civil Engineering, Rural Development, Earth Science, Geology and Rural development departments
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Civil Engineering
  • Environment
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 24 Jan 2022
End Date : 15 Apr 2022
Enrollment Ends : 07 Feb 2022
Exam Date : 23 Apr 2022 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1:Importance of water resource management in India and Introduction to Hydrological Cycle and representations
Week 2:Key Hydrological Parameters 1
Week 3:Key Hydrological Parameters 2
Week 4:Introduction to Groundwater hydrology
Week 5:Groundwater components
Week 6:Surface water hydrology
Week 7:Water Mass Balance Equation
Week 8:Rural water management issues, data challenges and observation records.
Week 9:Rural water resource management infrastructure (engineered)
Week 10:Rural water resource management infrastructure (nature based)
Week 11:Rural hydrological databases for India
Week 12:Remote Sensing data bases for Rural water resources

Books and references

1) Freeze P.A., Cherry J. 1979 Groundwater. Prentice-Hall
2) Ward, R.C and Robinson. M. 1967. Principles of Hydrology. Tata McGraw Hill  
3) Dingman, S.L. and Dingman, S.L. 2015. Physical hydrology (Vol. 575). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
4) Viessman, W., Lewis, G.L. and Knapp, J.W. 2003. Introduction to hydrology (No. GB 661.2. V53 1972.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
5) Fetter, C.W. 2018. Applied hydrogeology. Waveland Press.
6) Brady, Nyle C., and Harry Oliver Buckman. The nature and properties of soils. No. 631.4 B7295n Ej. 6 008553. Macmillan, 2013.
7) Field notes from instructor
8) Raghunath H.M. 2006. Hydrology: principles, analysis and design

Instructor bio

Prof. Pennan Chinnasamy

IIT Bombay
Pennan Chinnasamy obtained his Masters degree in Physics from Wesleyan University, Connecticut - US, followed by a doctoral degree, with focus on hydrology, from University of Missouri, US. After his Research fellow position with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), he joined the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) as a Researcher (Geohydrology and Remote Sensing), and was stationed in Nepal and Indian offices, where he focused on climate change impacts on under developed and developing nations. He then joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a Senior Researcher developing real time flood predicting models for Singapore. He is currently an Assistant Professor with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - India, under the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) department, where his work primarily focuses on natural resources assessment, monitoring and management in rural regions. He is the founding director of the Rural Data Research and Analysis (RuDRA) lab, which is the first Big data lab for rural regions, housed in an academic institution in India. He is also an associate faculty with the Interdisciplinary Climate Program and Policy Study Centre in IITB. Pennan is also a visiting professor with University of Oulu, Finland. Over the past decade, Pennan has experience working in NGOs, national and regional government agencies and academic institutions, focusing on sustainable surface and groundwater management plans, climate change impacts, large data analysis and hydrological simulation models. His work has been recognized in many internationally peer reviewed journals, policy briefs and government reports (e.g. EPA, NEA- Nepal, World Bank, Asian Development Bank) and are being used to formulate scientifically validated best management plans.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 23 April 2022 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Bombay. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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