Illegal small-scale mining famously alluded to in Ghana as 'Galamsey' has been uncontrolled for a considerable length of time. Although ASGM offers economic benefits and employment opportunities to about 4.5% of the Ghanaian ...

Aggregate is a very important material used for concrete construction of dams, barrages, tialnels, canals, roads, power houses, etc. in water resources development pro je cts. The natural aggre gate available such as grave ...

Agro-climatic characterization of AP for dry land Cultivation was performed using Rainfall and Potential Evapotraspiration indices in a GIS environment. Based on the total quantity and distribution of rainfall, irrigation, ...

Entrainment of air in hiol, velocity open channel, flow causes hulking of flow and alters normal frictional resistance and other flow oroprties. Thus design problems of proper free board allowance and calculation of modified ...

The work on the Chambal Project was started in 1953. The main storage dam is Gandhi Sagar and a diversionary barrage at Kota together with the principal canals were constructed and irrigation was started in year 1960 but ...

The practice followed in India is to plan a project for a target demand of not more than 75% dependable yield (with associated temporal distribution) and then test the performance of the system so planned to ensure 75% ...

Droughts and floods are natural phenomena and have consi-derable adverse effects on the developmental activities, particularly in case of water resource development, Planners have given much emphasis on floods due to their ...

Geophysical investigations form an integral part to assess the feasibility of a Civil Engineering Structures. These involve selection of suitable sites from technological, geological and economic considerations. The safety ...

In the past, embankment dams were preferred in wide valleys up to modest heights only. The advancement of soil mechanics ,evolution of earth and rockfill dams and improved design procedures have gradually lead to construction ...