Meet the editors

Prathna Thanjavur Chandrasekaran, Ph.D., has been working in the field of water research for the past nine years. She has more than thirty publications in peer-reviewed international journals and an edited book to her credit. She has published more than 1700 citations and has an h-index of fifteen. Dr. Prathna has a Ph.D. in Nanotechnology and has worked with academic institutions of repute such as the Indian Institute of Science (Ban-

galore) and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands (formerly UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education), as part of her postdoctoral studies. Her research focuses on optimizing adsorbent nanomaterials for the development of decentralized drinking water filters. She currently works as a chief minister`s fellow with the Department of Irrigation and Flood Control with the Delhi Government (India) and works on projects related to the cleaning of River Yamuna, the revival of water bodies, decentralized wastewater treatment, water management, and re-use.

Dr. Muhammad Salik Javaid has been working on academics, research, development, execution, management, and policy formulation assignments with the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers and engineering universities in Pakistan and abroad for the past four decades. He has worked as Chief Consulting Engineer in the organization of Engineer-in-Chief, Director General Planning for Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Au-

thority, Pakistan, and a disaster risk reduction consultant with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He is a graduate of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, the USA where he undertook his graduate and postgraduate studies in Dam Overtopping and Ocean Bed Hydrodynamics. He has published various research papers, and edited six books on water resources. He has conducted various courses for civil engineering students at universities in Pakistan. During his last engagement, Dr. Javaid taught Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering at Morgan State University, Baltimore, USA.

Dr. Aftab Sadiq is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Wah, Pakistan. He received a BSc (CE) from MCE, Risalpur, Pakistan, and an MS and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. His field of specialization is open-channel flows and his research work focuses on clear-water scour around bridge abutments in compound channels. He has served on the faculty of the National University of Sciences

and Technology (NUST), and Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has taught courses in fluid mechanics, open channel flows, hydraulic engineering, and water resources engineering. He has served as a consultant to various civil engineering design, consultancy, and project implementation organizations. He has worked on various civil engineering projects related to water resources, water flows, water supply, drainage, dams, groundwater, pumping, and others.

Contents

**Section 1**

Perspective

**Section 2**

*by Günter Müller-Czygan*

*by Joseph Okeyo Obosi*

Activities in Colombia

Resources of Pakistan

*by Shemsu Gulta and Brook Abate*

*by Prathna Thanjavur Chandrasekaran*

**Preface XI**

Water Resources Management **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 19**

**Chapter 4 35**

Water Management-Case Studies **55**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 73**

**Chapter 7 93**

Introductory Chapter: Resources of Water and the Need for Conservation

The Availability of Water in Chile: A Regional View from a Geographical

*by Javier Lozano Parra, Manuel Pulido Fernández and Jacinto Garrido Velarde*

Smart Water—How to Master the Future Challenges of Water Management

Aquifer Characterization: The Case of Hawassa City Aquifer

Community Management and Water Service Delivery in Africa

Effects of Climate Change on Water Resources, Indices, and Related

The Art of Physical Hydraulic Modeling and Its Impact on the Water

*by Muhammad Salik Javaid and Muhammad Zeshan Khalil*

*by Nathaly Güiza-Villa, Carlos Gay-García and Jesús Efren Ospina-Noreña*
