| Author | Tamrakar, Niranjan Man |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.WM-05-12 |
| Subject(s) | Chao Phraya River Watershed (Thailand) Economic conditions Chao Phraya River Watershed (Thailand) Environmental conditions Water quality Chao Phraya River (Thailand)
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Engineering |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Escalating competition for water across sectors increases the importance of environmental and economic appraisal of the river basin to address the challenges facing water resources management and planning. Uniqueness and unknown relationship characteristics of the river basin demands assessment of a state of river water quality and its associated economic activities to establish the inter linkage relationship between economic performance and river water quality of the specific River Basin. This study is carried out in holistic approach with gross provincial product (GPP) as an economic indicator and river water quality as an environmental indicator. The Lower Chao Phraya River Basin beheld impressive economic growth coupled with rapid urbanization, industrialization and progressively increasing environmental mitigation costs during 1996-2004. This study portrays the interrelation between water utilization by agricultural, industrial and domestic sectors, and resource degradation to keep social and economic benefits intact. Although GPP per capita growth of 30% has induced 50% increment in reuse cost at downstream annually, economic growth of 5% is still attainable under regulatory and technical control measures. Temporal and spatial variability of the river water quality renders causal relationship between river water quality and economic growth in the River Basin. The stability in DO levels in river over the period illustrates the prospect of anticipated economic growth without jeopardizing the water quality. However, multi-institutional involvement in river basin management calls for strong linking and networking for information generation, exchange, synchronization and non repetition. In order to establish statistically quantified relationship, details sectorial researches need to be performed considering longer time span with consistent information, social and bequest value of the river and inter-changeable hydrologic phenomenon of surface water system with subsurface and atmospheric water systems in the further research study |
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Water Engineering and Management (WM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Gupta, Ashim Das ;Babel, Mukand Singh |
| Examination Committee(s) | Clemente, Roberto S.;Parkpian, Preeda |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | AIT fellowship |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 |