Water Resource Conservation: what Really the Forest Do?
IR@CIMFR: CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad
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Water Resource Conservation: what Really the Forest Do?
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Singh, R.K.
Pal, D. Singh , R.S. |
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Envieronmental Management Group
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Presently the global forest cover is getting drastically reduced day by day due to gradual increase in standard of living couple with increase in demand for forest resources. Forest vegetation plays crucial role in the hydrological cycle and water balance in the tropical soil. The main component of vegetation is its canopy and extended roots which have capacity to infiltrate the water and percolate it to the ground water table through interception either by leaves, branches to roots. On the other hand vegetation has capacity to reduce the water contamination and pollution making a cleaner ground for surface water. Vegetation also helps to sink ground water pollution via attenuating the hazardous pollutants. Revegetation and afforestation restore the water table and water cycle. Harvesting of vegetation reduces the content of water in the soil and groundwater as well as atmospheric moisture. Tree species also have an important role in managing the water resource protection and conservation. Using secondary data, the present paper makes an attempt to delineate the role of forests in water resources protection and conservation. ot also explains the regulatory effect of forest hydrological cycle
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Xavier Institute Ranchi
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2015-09
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Article
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Singh, R.K. and Pal, D. and Singh , R.S. (2015) Water Resource Conservation: what Really the Forest Do? Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management studies , 13 (3). pp. 6557-6576. ISSN 0973-8444
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http://cimfr.csircentral.net/2431/
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