Due to continuous population growth and industrialization along with intensive agriculture to meet food demand, good quality water has become rare in most of
the basins of India. Up to the last decade, to solve the water related issues in
India, water quantity and quality were considered individually; and it was
realized that individual consideration of these parameters will not solve the
problem for long term. Therefore, at present, a concept of integrated water
resources management has been encouraged to manage the water resources and
pollution control in the rivers. In the present study, an efficacy of a decision
support system (DSS) has been presented for the Yamuna River to augment the
good quality of water as environmental flows, which include the hydrology,
natural resources, pollution, socio-economics, infrastructural development, etc
of the basin. Using the DSS, numbers of possible scenarios were tested and it is
revealed that installation of sewage treatment plants (STPs) alone cannot
improve the water quality of the river when river is highly intercepted. To ensure
the environmental flows in the river, integrated water resources management has
become important at micro-watershed level
ROLE OF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR RIVER POLLUTION CONTROL
