Integrated Management of Water Resources with Reference to Biodiversity and Livelihood

Contents: 1. Induced spawning of carps and hatchery management/P.K. Varshney, S.N. Dwivedi and W.S. Lakra. 2. Engineering intervention for growth of aquaculture sector/Bimal Chandra Mal. 3. Can Hilsa fishers adopt to new fishing regulation policy of West Bengal, India Government for sustainable catch/Madhumita Mukherjee and Chinmoy Chakraborty. 4. Fisheries in West Bengal India problems and prospects/C.s. Chakrabarti and K.C. Dora. 5. Live feed the life line of ornamental fish industries in West Bengal, India: a livelihood study/Madhumita Mukherjee, Shivendra Singh and Sandip Kumar Mondal. 6. Water quality management practices in freshwater culture and hatcheries operation/Chandra Prakash, S.N. Dwivedi and K.D. Raju. 7. The state of art of fisheries of Uttarakhand State, India/H.S. Raina and R.K. Langer. 8. Genetic variability of mystus Cavasius Hamilton 1822 populations using Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA/R.K. Garg, P. Sairkar, N. Silawat, N. Batav and R. Sharma. 9. Zooplankton diversity in changing environment of river Gomti in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India/P.K. Varshney, R.K. Agrahari, S.K. Singh, A.K. Yadav and W.S. Lakra. 10. Biodiversity of certain water bodies of Madhya Pradesh, India/S.K. Kulshrestha. Water as most precious natural resource is vital for sustaining life and livelihood of people. Different uses of water are inter-dependent thus the key issue is integrated water resources management which is essential in the present scenario. On our earth, of water is spread as sea 97% and freshwater 3% of the total freshwater 87% is not accessible to us remaining 3% accessible to us our of which 0.4% for human consumption. The fact and figures show that in developing countries there is acute water crisis both quality and quantity wise. Water shortage in over 40 countries of the world is faced by 2 billion people. Half the population of developing world is affected by water pollution problem leading to suffering from diseases. The projections show that increase in population from 6 billion to 9 billion, will be the main thrust for water resources management for the next 50 years. In India, improper disposal of domestic and industrial waste is the main cause for pollution of lakes, wet lands and rivers. Therefore optimal sustainable use of water, abatement of pollution, conservation of biodiversity in aquatic ecosystem including village ponds, hill stream, rivers, etc. are of paramount importance. This required nation wise efforts of scientists, scholars, social organization, fisheries and aquaculture project managers, administrators and policy makers for making honest efforts in planning and operationalisation of integrated water resources management. It is with this aim papers from eminent scholars, scientists, researchers, teachers and students were invited and compiled in the present book. We hope that these will be of immense support in the water resource management in the country.…