Canal Irrigation Systems in India: Operation, Maintenance, and Management

The book focuses broadly on the preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems in India with a focus on their operation, maintenance, and management of the canal systems. The chapters in this book are classified under four sections, viz., (i). preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems, (ii) operation of the canal irrigation systems, (iii) maintenance of the canal irrigation systems, and (iv) management of the canal irrigation systems.

The preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems include an integrated view of irrigation and agriculture, irrigation management in India: problems, issues, a brief history, and some lessons, irrigation administration, organizational structure for management of irrigated agriculture, and farmers’ participation.

The operation of the canal irrigation systems includes the operation of dams and barrages, canal operation, water distribution planning, measurement of flow and sediment in canals, and performance evaluation of the canal irrigation system, use of groundwater in the canal command area.

The canal irrigation systems' maintenance includes dams, barrages, related equipment, canals and related structures, field drainage, diagnostic analysis of canal irrigation system, soil and water quality management, soil moisture, and measurement.

The management of the canal irrigation systems includes rehabilitation and modernization and a case study on rehabilitation, conjunctive use management, operation, and maintenance budgeting, and financing.

The book is expected to be useful for academicians, water practitioners, scientists, water managers, environmentalists, administrators, NGOs, researchers, and students who are actively involved in the operation, maintenance, and management of the canal irrigation system for addressing the challenges being faced in the irrigated agricultural while addressing issues of canal irrigation systems in South East Asia.

Umesh Chandra Chaube

Umesh Chandra Chaube is a Former Professor of IIT Roorkee and has more than 48 years of experience in the water resource development and management sector covering field engineering, teaching, and research. He holds B.Tech and M.Tech degree (Civil Engg.) from IIT Kanpur and  Ph.D. degree(Water Resources) from IIT Delhi. He has supervised one post-doctoral research, 15 Ph.D. level research, 95 Master degree level dissertations, and 152 special problem studies. He has published 124 research papers in journals and conference proceedings.

 

Over a period of  33 years at the Department of Water Resource Development and Management of IIT Roorkee, he has been responsible for the capacity building of a large number of irrigation professionals from Afro-Asian countries. He has also served on several National Committees of the Government of India.

 

He is a Life Member of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage and a Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers India, the Indian Water Resources Society, and the Indian Association of Hydrology. He has been Executive Vice President of the Indian Water Resources Society and Chief Editor of its Journal. He has served as  Dy. Director/Assistant Director in  Central Water Commission of Government of India and as  Faculty at IIT Roorkee, IIT Indore, and  Sri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth University, Indore. He was employed by United Nation-FAO as International Hydrologist & Water Management Specialist in Kabul ( Afghanistan). He is the recipient of the Colombo Plan Scholarship, UNESCO Fellowship, and UNEP Fellowship, Emeritus Fellowship of IIT Roorkee and has been Professor Emeritus at Sri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth University at Indore.

 

   

Prof. Ashish Pandey

Prof. Ashish Pandey is Bharat Singh Chair Professor of the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, and the Head of the Departmentof Water Resources Development and Management, IIT Roorkee. He holds B. Tech. and M. Tech. (Gold Medal) from JNKVV, Jabalpur followed by a Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur. His research interests include Irrigation Water Management, Soil, and Water Conservation Engineering, Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Water Resources, etc. He supervised 13 Ph.D. and 88 M. Tech. dissertations. Dr. Pandey published 224 research papers in High Impact Journals/Conference and 37 book chapters. He has co-authored two textbooks on “Irrigation Engineering” and “Introductory Soil and Water Conservation Engineering.” He has also served as a lead editor of seven volumes of the Water Science and Technology Library book series for Springer Nature, Switzerland AG.

Currently, Prof. Pandey is the Executive Vice President of the Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS) and Chairman, Institution of Engineers (Roorkee Local Centre). He has trained about 1000 + senior-level scientists/engineers under 37 various capacity-building programs from India and Afro-Asian Countries. He has also served on several National Committees of the Govt of India. He is the recipient of several national and international fellowships/awards and honors. He is a Fellow member of (1). Institution of Engineers (India); (2). Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH) and (3). IWRS.

Prof. V.P. Singh

 

Professor Vijay P. Singh is a Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and the inaugural holder of the Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He received his B.Sc & Tech., M.S., Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees, all in engineering. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional hydrologist, and an Honorary Diplomate of ASCE-AAWRE. He is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, an Honorary Distinguished Member of IWRA, a Distinguished Fellow of AGGS, and an Honorary Member of AWRA, and a Fellow of EWRI-ASCE, ASCE, IAH, ISAE, IWRS, and IASWC. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE), an Academician  of Georgia Fazisi Academy, a member of European Academy of Science and Arts, and a fellow/member of 12 other international science/engineering academies. He has published extensively in the areas of hydrology, irrigation engineering, hydraulics, groundwater, water quality, water resources, entropy theory, copula theory, and climate change impacts with more than 1530refereed journal articles; 40 books; 92 edited reference books, as well as the Handbook of Applied Hydrology and Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers; 130 book chapters; and 330conference papers. He has received four honorary doctoratesfrom Italy and Canada, and more than 110 national and international awards, including Norman Medal (twice), Chow Award, Torrens Award, Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award, and Outstanding Projects and Leader (OPAL) Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, Best paper Awards (twice), and Roy C. Tipton Award, all given by American Society of Civil Engineers; Hancor Award and Lalit and Aruna Verma Award for Global excellence, both given by American Society of Agricultural & Biological  Engineers; Merriam Improved Irrigation Award, given by International Commission onIrrigation and Drainage; Linsley Award, Wetzel Award, and Founders Award, given by American Institute of Hydrology; Crystal Drop Award and Chow Memorial Award, given by International Water Resources Association; Outstanding Scientist Award given by Sigma Xi; Distinguished Scientist Award, given by Chinese Academy of Science; Distinguished Professor Award, given by Mexican Academy of Science; Professor Gajendra Singh Gold Medal for Education, given by Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers; to name but a few. He has served as President of the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH); President of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers; President of International Association for Water, Environment, Energy, and Society; and Chair of  Watershed Council of American Society of Civil Engineers. He has servedas editor-in-chief of five journals and two book series and has served/serves on editorial boards of more than 40 journals and three book series. He has given more than 175 keynote lecturesand 300 invited seminars all over the world, and has organized more than 25 international conferences and His Google Scholar citations are more than 95,550; h-index of 128; and I10-index of 1151.

 

Professor Singh has long been engaged in philanthropic activities. He founded G.B. School in 1994 in his native village Naglavishnu in District Agra, U.P., India, in memory of his parents.  The school imparts quality education to children in rural Agra. Has been bearing most of the expenditures involved in the operation of school, including the cost of building construction, staff salaries, furniture, maintenance, management of the school, and so on. The school now has four campuses: (1) Primary School (Grade 1-5), (2) Inter College (Grade 6-12), (3) Degree College (B.A. and B.Sc.); and (4) Industrial Training Center (Fitter and Electronics).