Climate Change and Hydrosphere : The Water Planet in Crises

Contents: Preface. I. Climate change perspectives and issues: 1. Environmental Issues in India: a perspective/A.K. Dikshit and Raj Kumar. 2. Global warming and climate change: a perspective/Chinmony Mishra and Lipismita Samal. 3. Global warming: an alarming issue/Aali Pant and Swati Singh Rajput. 4. Microalgae in the greenhouse gas sequestration/Deksha Baliyan, Shweta Tyagi and S.K. Bhatnagar. 5. Climate chaos? a hysteria and simple myth/I.M. Arora. II. Water pollution: a threat to life: 6. Groundwater pollution: a threat to the last hope on the blue planet/Zeba Khanam and Vir Singh. 7. Assessment of pesticide levels in human system due to environmental contamination from North-East India/Kumkum Mishra and Ramesh C. Sharma. 8. Oil spill on ocean: control and management/Kanchan Deoli Bahukhandi, S.C. Gupta, V. Sujatha and Pawan Mandappa. III. Climate change and water resources: 9. Impacts of climate change on water/Bhanu Chaddha and Vaibhav Matta. 10. Global climate change and salinity: impact of salinity on the environment/Bhumija Kaphaliya and R.K. Srivastava. 11. Potential impacts of climate change on freshwater resources: a critical review/Anil Kumar Shankhwar, Nanda Nautiyal, Bipin Kumar, Akanksha Rastogi, R.K. Srivastava and Vir Singh. 12. Dissolved load characteristics of melt water of Chhota Shigri glacier Lahaul-Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India/Virendra Bahadur Singh, A.L. Ramanathan P.G. Jose, Paramanand Sharma and Anurag Linda. 13. Analysis of rainfall pattern for Anjar Taluka of Kutch district, Gujarat State/Sanskriti S. Mujumdar and Arvind S. Patel. 14. Impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Rajasthan/Nidhi Kaushik. 15. Impact of Thuthi Kankasiya check dam on Irrigation in Machhan river basin/N./J. Shrimali and A.A. Patel. IV. Response to water crises: 16. Water insecurity: the plachimada struggle/Raju Narayana Swamy. 17. Waters of the Himalayas: the natural resources fundamental to life and livelihoods/Vir Singh. 18. Effect of natural coagulants on water quality parameters/L. Udaya Simha, Priya V. and Puttaswamy. 19. Climate change Ganga glaciers and agriculture: some reflections/Girijesh Singh Mahra. 20. Treatment of water receiving pulp and Paper Mill effluents: applying a cost effective and affordable method/Akansha Rastogi and Vir Singh. 21. Water, energy and women for sustainable development and achieving Millennium development goals in the mountains/Vir Singh. 22. Industrials use of wastewater to minimize its misuse/Archita Rai, Neraj Kumar and Sanchita Sharma. The water Planet is in Crises. The hydrosphere the largest body of the biosphere is in perilous state. Indiscriminate use of water in agriculture, industries, households, etc. has resulted in water scarcity. Water scarcity has coupled with water pollution. Whatever little water is left for drinking is infested with deadly pollutants, both chemicals and biological. Most of the ills humanity suffers from are owing to water pollution. Climate change has further intensified water crises in the form of accelerated glacier melt, fury of floods and impairment of overall water cycle of the biosphere. Yet people and their organizations have been attempting to respond to water crises the globe is in the grips of. Some of the responses are exemplary and could help us avert water crises but in order to put the hydrological cycle back into order we need to get rid of the vicious cycle of climate change and global warming. Efficient resource management significant curtailment in carbon emissions and enhanced carbon sequestration could be instrumental in controlling the negative factors responsible for climate change and global warming and help restore climate order of the earth in which the hydrosphere would resume its life enhancing and life sustaining role on earth and would turn to be the most important resource as usual of human progress and happiness. …