Fluoride in drinking water has a profound effect on teeth and bones. Up to a small level (1–1.5mg/L)
this strengthens the enamel. Concentrations in the range of 1.5–4mg/L result in …

Environmental and economic implications linked with the proper ecofriendly disposal of
modern day wastes, has made it essential to come up with alternative waste management …

Azo dyes are aromatic compounds with one or more –Ndouble bondN– groups. These dyes
are the most important and largest class of synthetic dyes used in commercial applications. …

Management of municipal solid waste is a global problem and is faced by all developing
countries. The rapid pace of increase in population, economic growth, urbanization and …

Speciation generally involves a three-step process—range expansion, range fragmentation
and the development of reproductive isolation between spatially separated populations 1 , 2 …

This book provides an updated discussion of snow and glacier hydrology, drawing on the
results of recent investigations. It serves as a source of reference at the senior undergraduate …

Abstract The impact of climate change is projected to have different effects within and between
countries. Information about such change is required at global, regional and basin scales …

The effect of climate change on snow water equivalent, snowmelt runoff, glacier melt runoff
and total streamflow and their distribution is examined for the Spiti river. This is a high altitude …

The present study sets out to investigate the sensitivity of water availability to climate change
for a large western Himalayan river (the Satluj River basin with an area of 22 275 km 2 and …

The present study deals with precipitation distribution with altitude for the Satluj and Beas
basins in the western Himalayas. Rainfall increases linearly with elevation for both basins in …