10 Industrial Operation of the Biological Early Warning
System BioArgus for Water Quality Control
Using Crayfish as a Biosensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Sergey V. Kholodkevich, Tatiana V. Kuznetsova,
Svetlana V. Sladkova, Anton S. Kurakin, Alexey V. Ivanov,
Vasilii A. Lyubimtsev, Eugenii L. Kornienko,
and Valery P. Fedotov
11 Water in Cultural Perspective with Special Reference
to Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Ravi S. Singh and Sarah Ahmad
12 Water Resource Management Through Ecological
Restoration in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India . . . . . 157
Abhay Shankar Prasad, Anju Singh, S. K. Bandooni,
and V. S. Negi
13 Changing Rainfall Patterns and Their Linkage to Floods
in Bhagirathi-Hooghly Basin, India: Implications for Water
Resource Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
N. C. Jana, Sujay Bandyopadhyay, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh,
and Ritendu Mukhopadhyay
14 Impacts of Beach Placer Mineral Mining in the Shallow
Coastal Aquifers of Southern Tamil Nadu Coast, India . . . . . 183
S. Selvakumar and N. Chandrasekar
15 Flood Simulation Modelling and Disaster Risk Reduction
of West Tripura District, Tripura, North-East India . . . . . . . 201
Moujuri Bhowmik and Nibedita Das (Pan)
16 Remote Sensing and GIS-Based Morphometric Analysis
of Spiti River Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Arif Husain and Pankaj Kumar
17 Demarcation of Hyper-Arid Land in the Indian Desert:
An Environmental Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Sahila Salahuddin
18 Development of the Approach for the Complex Prediction
of Spring Floods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
A. A. Volchak, D. A. Kostiuk, D. O. Petrov, and N. N. Sheshko
19 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Bindhy Wasini Pandey and Subhash Anand
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