Integrated Water Resources Development And Management Of Suvarnamukhi Watershed In Tumkur District, Karnataka Using GIS And Remote Sensing

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Integrated Water Resources Development And Management Of
Suvarnamukhi Watershed In Tumkur District, Karnataka Using GIS
And Remote Sensing
1 Student Shri Tuljabhavani Engineering College, Tuljapur. Tuljapur,Osmanabad, Mahrashtra, India
2,3,4 Professor Shri Tuljabhavani Engineering College, Tuljapur,Osmanabad, Mahrashtra, India
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Abstract - Water is a crucial natural resource and its
availability is being threatened due to factors such as
population growth, urbanization, industrialization, and
deforestation. To develop and implement water resource
projects effectively, it is important to have an accurate
assessment of the quantity and quality of water resources at a
watershed level. This can be achieved through the use of
advanced technologies like Geographic Information System
(GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS).
In this context, a detailed study has been undertaken to assess
the water resources of the Suvarnamukhiwatershed inTumkur
district, Karnataka state. The area falls under a semi-arid
climate zone and has no perennial streams. The region
primarily relies on groundwater for drinking and irrigation
purposes, and the failure or delay of monsoons has led to a
significant depletion of dug wells and bore wells in many
villages. Additionally, there is a lack of data on the availability
of natural resources, demography, and infrastructure, which
has hindered developmental activities in the region.
To address these challenges, anintegratedhydrologicalstudyis
necessary at the watershedlevel, usingadvancedscientific tools
like GIS and RS.
Key Words: Geographic Information System (GIS) and
Remote Sensing (RS), Water Resources Development,
watershed level etc.
1.INTRODUCTION
Water is a crucial renewable natural resource, but its
availability with good quality and quantity in the right
location and time is crucial. Despite being widely available,
only a small amount of water is useful for human needs,
which highlights the importance of an accurateassessmentof
water resources at a watershed level. This requires studying
and analyzing hydrological processes in the watershedovera
long period, using advanced scientific technologiestodevelop
accurate models. Geographic Information System (GIS) and
Remote Sensing (RS) are powerful tools that can play a vital
role in inventorying and analyzing various natural resources
for decision-making on water resources development and
management.
RS is particularly useful for deriving information about
objects on the earth's surface withoutphysical contact,andits
high resolution and temporal data make it an essential tool
for sustainable development of natural resources, including
water resources. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool
(SWAT) is a model used to predict the impact of land
management practices on water, sediment, and agricultural
chemical yields in large, complex watersheds. The SWAT
model uses hydrological parameters such as daily rainfall,
temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, humidity, landuse,
soil characteristics, drainage network, and topography to
simulate evapotranspiration, runoff, stream flow,
sedimentation, and more at a watershed scale.
Therefore, a detailed study using advanced scientific tools
like GIS, RS, and the SWAT model has been conducted to
assess the status of water resources in the Suvarnamukhi
watershed in Tumkur district, Karnataka state. The study
provides an effective use of GIS and RS for analyzing the
quantity and quality of both surface and groundwater at the
watershed level, which can help optimize water resources
development and management.
1.2 DEFINITION AND TERMINOLOGY
 Geographic Information System (GIS) is a tool for
capturing, storing, manipulating, querying, analyzing and
displaying data, which are spatially referenced to the
earth87. GIS can play an important role in inventory and
data base handling of various natural resources to
carryout spatial analysis and overlay analysis of wide
range of applications. GIS has the capability to integrate,
superimpose, spatial query and analyse the various
themes of the watershed for decision making on water
resources development and management.
 Remote Sensing (RS) is the technology of deriving
information about objects on the surface of the earth
without physically coming in contact with them62. RS
with its high platform sensing, synoptic view and spatial
multi spectral characteristics has wide ranges of
applications. It has become an integral partofInformation
Technology and provides solution to facilitatesustainable
development of the natural resources in general and
Mr. S.B.Gavhane1, Prof. Mrs. Ghadge C.A. 2 , Prof. D.C. Poul 3, Prof. S.C.Wadne4

water resources in particular at varying scales by
providing high resolution temporal data.
 Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) isa riverbasin
or watershed scale model developed by the USDA
Agricultural Research Service. SWAT was developed to
predict the impact of land management practices on
water, sediment and agricultural chemical yields in large
complex watersheds with varying soils, land use and
management conditions over long periods of time. The
SWAT model is being used to assess and simulate the
Evapo-transpiration, PET, Run-off, Stream flow,
Sedimentation etc, by using hydrological parameterssuch
as daily rainfall, temperature, solar radiation,windspeed,
humidity, land use, soil characteristics, drainage network,
topography etc, at watershed scale88.
2. Suvarnamukhi Watershed:
Suvarnamukhi Watershed is spread across partly 7 taluks
covering 733 revenue villages in Tumkur district. Out of total
geographical area, 65% comes under Chikkanayakanahalli
and Sira and remaining 35% of area comes under five taluks
namely Tumkur, Tiptur, Gubbi, Madhugiri and Koratagere
taluks.
The villages of the Watershed comes under 102
Grampanchayaths and 4 Town Panchayaths for
administrative purpose as shown in figure 3.2. Out of 733
villages, C.N.Halli taluk has 213 villages, Sira taluk has 210
villages, Madhugiri taluk has 97 villages, Gubbi taluk has 91
villages, Tiptur has 68 villages , Tumkur taluk has 35 villages
and Koratagere has 22 villages.The Watershedhas22hoblies
which are having Nada Kacheries for revenue administration
purposes. The watershed comes under two partially covered
Parliamentary Constituencies such as Tumkur PC and
Chitrdurga PC and has 7 partially covered Legislative
Assembly Constituencies.
Fig 1. Geographical Location of Suvarnamukhi
Watershed with SOI Toposheet Grids in Tumkur
District, Karnataka State, India(Source: NRDMS/SOI)
3. LITERATURE REVIEW
A general overview of previous research work on
Integrated Water Resources Development And Management.
1. Zhou et al (2008), undertook a study on surface water
resources in Chaobaihe basin of Beijing using the micro
satellite data to collect on surface water distributions
both in the rainy and non-rainy seasons.Itwasobserved
that, the annual change of surface water area of the
basin shows a decreasing trend from 1997 to 2007. The
study concluded that satellite imageries can be
successfully used in the assessment of surface water at
micro level.
2. Gauhar Mahmood and Shasikanth Chaudary(2004),
made an attempt to elaborate water crisis on domestic
as well as commercial water demandsofLakeWoodcity,
Haryana. It includes the importance of water balance
method to obtain water development and water
management which will augment the groundwater by
artificial recharge through rain water.
3. Jala Samavardhana YojanaSangha(2004), conducted
rainfall-runoff simulation studies for the various tanks
some districts of Karnataka using SCSCN method. The
study concluded that, GISandRStechniqueshaveplayed
important role in assessing the status of water bodies
for improving the conditions of various tanks.

4. Srishail Dolli (2006), carried out a study on
sustainability of natural resource management in
watershed development in two taluks of Chitradurga
district. The investigation was based on the information
collected from six villages and 240 farmers. Hence, the
generalization of findings has been made based on the
sample study carried out during study.
5. Keshab Das(2005) , carried out the study on
Harvesting for domestic use; Potential and Relevance of
village tanks at desert region . The findings suggest that
village ponds remain important sources of domestic
water and these can be substantive use, especially
during summer and suggests that community
management is a useful strategy to protect and
improvise the systems by community participation.
6. Madhavi Ganesan(2007), studied the status of
Madrass, India; Rehabitation of Ancient Technique for
multipurpose water study an attempt has been made to
evaluate appropriate strategies to conserve the
rainwater in the existing urban temple tanks. The study
found the reason for the dryness of urban tanks. It also
revealed the methodstorehabilitateand re-establishthe
hydrological role of the tanks.
7. GOI(1994), developed a manual of national use/land
cover mapping using satellite imageries. The object of
this manual is to familiarize the users with the
classification, definition, methodology and
interpretation techniques, steps involved for
identification and mapping land use/ land cover
categories. These techniques have been incorporated in
the present research work.
8. Minor et al (1994), attempted to present a unique
methodology for groundwater exploration usingRSand
GIS, particularly in developing countries likeGhana.The
study concludes that, interpretation strategies that
integrate various data types are useful to characterize
groundwater resources for locating a well point.
9. Asadi et al (2007), evaluated the quality of
groundwater in Municipal corporationofHyderabad, by
conducting physico-chemical analysis for twenty five
groundwater samples. Water quality Index (WQI) was
calculated.
10. Shankar (2007), evaluatedthewaterqualityindicesfor
groundwater of Whitefield industrial area in Bangalore
which was determined by collecting 35 samples in and
around the industrial area. Water quality index was
calculated based on 10 parameters. The WQI ranged
from 11.58 to 495.07 with an average of 69.95. The
analysis revealed that the groundwater samples in
general can be considered to be fit for human
consumption.
3.2 Objectives of the study:-
Keeping detailed quantitative and qualitative study of the
water resources at watershed levelinview,thestudyhasbeen
taken with the following objectives.
 Assessment of the detailed hydrological status of
selected Surface Water Bodies and Traditional Water
Harvesting systems along with water quality.
 Assessment of Ground Water Recharge, Discharge,
Storage, Water balance, Water demand and Mapping
the depth to ground water level and seasonal ground
water table fluctuation.
 Ground water quality analysis for drinking and
irrigation purposes.
 To suggest the various measures for conservation of
water and soil for sustainable development and
management of water resources.
3.3 Methodology For Integrated Water Resources
Development And Management:
Fig 2 : The Flow Chart Showing the Methodology of the
Study

 Scanning
A scanner is a hardware used for converting an analogue
source document into digital raster format. Scanning is a
method of automatic digitizing. Scanning has been carriedout
in the study to convert someanalogue maps into digital mode
and used for further analysis in GIS environment.
 Digitization
Digitization is the process of converting features on a paper
map into the digital format.When digitization is started, the X
and Y coordinates of the feature are automatically recorded
and stored in a spatial data. The features of interest on a geo-
referenced toposheets and other maps are digitized as
different layers in the study.
 Geo-registration
It is important that all spatial data in GIS analysis should be
located with respect to a common frame of reference which is
known as geo-referencing or geo-registration. As the
toposheet is being used as the base map, it needs to be geo-
registered before carrying out any further analysis. Geo-
registration has been carried out for all the features extracted
from toposheets in GIS environment using Mapinfo and Arc
GIS software in the study. This georegistered image of the
toposheet is further used as the base map for digitization and
geo-registration of satellite imageries.
 Topology Building
In GIS, topology is the term used to describe the geometric
characteristics of objects. The topologicalcharacteristicsofan
object are also independent of scale of measurement.
Topology, as it relates to spatial data, consists of three
elements:adjacency, containment and connectivity.Topology
has been built to all various thematic layers created in the
study under GIS environment.
4.1 Experimental set-up
Plate 1: Suvarnamukhi River as seen During Pre-
monsoon Season
Plate 2 : Suvarnamukhi River as seen During Post-
monsoon Season
5. Expected Outcome:-
Suvarnamukhi watershed is elongated in the east-west
direction. ThemaximumlengthofSuvarnamukhiwatershedis
72.5 km along North-South and the maximum width is 77.5
km along E-W. The linear aspects have been evaluated using
GIS as described below.
(a) Stream Order(U)
Designation of the stream order is important to index the
size and scale of the basin and it forms an approximate index
of the amount of stream flow.The mainstreamSuvarnamukhi
is found to be at 7th order stream as per Strahler's (1957)
method of stream ordering as shown in figure 6.3.
(b) Stream Length(Lu)
After classifying the streams of the drainage network into
orders, each segments order U are computed(Strahler,1957)
as shown in table 6.1. streams of each of the different orders
tends closely to approximate a direct geometric pattern.
Hence, a plot of stream length on ordinate & the function of
order on abscissa should yield a set of points lying essentially
along a straight line as shown in figure 6.1.

Table 2.1: Stream Length and Number of Streams
From the table 6.1, it is clear that the length of streams
varied with reference to the stream orders as suggested by
Horton(1945).
Sr. No.
No. of
streams
of each
order
Nu
Total
length of
each order
in km
lu
Mean
length
in km
Lu= Iu /
Nu
Total
length
of all
streams
in
km Lu
1 5989 3314 0.55 5867
2 1334 1244 0.93
3 328 652 14.18
4 72 326 4.53
5 26 188 7.24
6 4 103 25.75
7 1 40 40
Fig. : Stream Order v/s Number of Streams of Each
Order
a) Length Ratio(RL)
RL is defined as the ratio of mean length of an order tothat
of the lower order(Horton,1945) which is calculated and
shown in table 6.3.
Table 6.3: Length Ratio of the Watershed
Stream order (U)
Stream order
(U)
Mean length of
streams (Lu)
Length ratio of
streams (RL)
1 0.55 0.93
2 0.93 0.06
3 14.18 3.13
4 4.53 0.63
5 7.24 0.28
6 25.75 0.64
7 40 0
Stream numbers and lengths supports the theory i.e.,
geometrical similarity is preserved in the basin of increasing
order as depicted in figure 6.2.
Fig 3. Variation of pH of Kalyanis in C.N.halli Taluk

CONCLUSION
Finally it may be concluded that, this study would be a
gateway for further exploration of Surface and Groundwater
in the watershed t meet the requirements of the area. The
overall hydrological studies carried out in the presentstudyis
not only hoped to serve as a first hand information on
Suvarnamukhi watershed using GIS and Remote sensing
techniques, but alsoforfurtherdetailedresearchandplanning
for effective management and development of water
resources.
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