Hydrogeological Research in India in Managing Water Resources -- Nature of Hard Rock Aquifers: Hydrogeological Uncertainties and Ambiguities -- Overview of the Hydrogeology of Hard Rock Aquifers: Applications for their Survey, Management, Modelling and Protection -- Geophysical Characterization of Hard Rock Aquifers -- Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Groundwater Exploration -- Pumping Tests: Planning, Preparation and Execution -- Various Pumping Tests and Methods for Evaluation of Hydraulic Properties in Fractured Hard Rock Aquifers -- Analyses of Aquifer Parameters from Different Hydraulic Tests and Their Scale Effect -- Upscaling of Slug Test Hydraulic Conductivity Using Discrete Fracture Network Modelling in Granitic Aquifers -- Groundwater Balance at the Watershed Scale in a Hard Rock Aquifer Using GIS -- Water Budgeting and Construction of Future Scenarios for Prediction and Management of Ground Water under Stressed Condition -- Applying Geostatistics: Basic Knowledge and Variographic Analysis with Exercises -- Kriging for Estimating Hydrogeological Parameters -- Application of Geostatistics in Optimal Groundwater Monitoring Network Design -- Reconstruction of Water Level Time Series in an Aquifer Using Geostatistical Technique -- Governing Equations of Groundwater Flow and Aquifer Modelling Using Finite Difference Method -- Simulation of Flow in Weathered-Fractured Aquifer in a Semi-Arid and Over-Exploited Region -- Regional Simulation of a Groundwater Flow in Coastal Aquifer, Tamil Nadu, India -- Hydrogeology of Hard Rock Aquifer in Kashmir Valley: Complexities and Uncertainties.

This book contains the results and findings of advanced research carried out in a pilot area with a thorough investigation of the structure and functioning of the aquifer in a granitic formation. The various chapters start from a very general scenario of the water resources management, then follows a technical contribution on the hard rock aquifer system, its characterization, theoretical portion of its properties and behaviour. Subsequently a brief description of various experiences of studying hard rock aquifers globally has been included. The rest of the book very systematically includes the geophysical, geological and remote sensing applications to conceptualize such an aquifer system. A major part covers the advanced techniques of geostatistics and aquifer modeling right from the basics demonstrated by suitable case studies. Finally a few examples have been included on the hard rock aquifers from the extreme north and also from the south of India with case studies to complete the matter.