NRSA funds water management study in Maharashtra

The National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) has sanctioned USD 90, 000 (Rs. 36 lakh) to the Centre for Remote Sensing at Bharathidasan University for undertaking water management studies in southern Maharashtra.

The project aimed at finding solutions for the drinking water problems and to develop models for the augmentation of water resources in parts of Maharashtra comes in the wake of the Centre launching its study two months ago for developing ‘landslide mitigation strategies’ for Tirumala–Tirupati. The study, incidentally marked the official beginning of the Centre’s research activities in other states.

The Centre leads in researches in the areas of Geological Remote Sensing and GIS for mineral targeting, 3D visualisation of natural resources, models on mountain-building activities, buckling and fracturing of Indian Plate and its control over the riverine, coastal, hydrological systems of South India, migration of river Cauvery during the last 3,000 yrs and its implications, newer concepts on the land-ocean interactive processes of Tamil Nadu coast, and newer capsules on mitigation and management of natural disasters like seismicities, landslides, floods, tsunamis, etc.

The study on providing solutions for the water problems for the southern parts of Maharashtra is unique and challenging, because the study area forms the southern part of the Deccan plateau formed by vast sheet of hot molten volcanic rocks which erupted repetitively during 60-65 million years back from the deeper part of the Earth and flowed laterally in all directions on the earth surface one after the other and thus formed a huge pile of layered sequence of flows presently exhibiting step like terraces and plateau, S.M. Ramasamy, Director, Centre for Remote Sensing and the Advisor of the project said.

Source : http://www.hindu.com