The ‘River Basin Atlas of India’ is an outcome of joint project ‘Generation of Database and implementation of Web Enabled Water Resources Information System (India-WRIS) in the country’, is a timely publication by the Central Water Commission (CWC) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). This is a comprehensive publication which gives detailed information of major water resources projects along with the location of all hydrological observation sites including major dams, barrages etc. in all the river basins of India. All these features have been portrayed on the maps with river network, major cities and terrain in background. This Atlas is also enriched with relevant ancillary information like basin wise land use/land cover, Parliament constituencies as well as state wise basin area.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/river-basin-atlas-india
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/river-basin-atlas_india_cwc-isro_2012.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/central-water-commission
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/river-basin
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/atlas-0
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-resources
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rainfall
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydrology
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dams
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