Research
Present research priorities include the study of the effects of man-made changes in river beds on the hydrological regime of rivers, ecologically sound river conservation methods for the protection of biological processes in rivers, guidelines for restoring rivers, design and reconstruction methods for small reservoirs, computation of design discharges in small mountain basins, application of GIS technologies for land protection and sediment yield computation, and climate change impact studies. Some of the recent projects the staff of the DLWRM has carried out, include:
- guidelines for restoring rivers
- evaluation of the effects of man-made changes in river beds on the aquatic ecosystem
- development of real-time rainfall runoff forecasting models
- water balance changes as a result of man's activity in catchments
- an evaluation of the control capabilities of reservoir systems
- hydrological flood routing on stretches of river with variable travel times
- computation of design discharges in small mountain catchments
- application of GIS technologies to land protection and sediment yield computation
- estimation of the influence of climate change on river runoff
- evaluation of empirical flood formulae
- guidelines for the management of small reservoirs
