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Texas Water Resources Institute TR-436
February 2013
2012 International SWAT
Conference Proceedings
Dan Kiniry, Texas A&M University
Courtney Smith, Texas A&M AgriLife Resesarch
Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M AgriLife Research
2012 International SWAT
Conference Proceedings
Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi
Texas Water
Resources Institute
  TR-436, 2013
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2012 International SWAT Conference – Conference Proceedings

Dan Kiniry, Texas A&M University, USA
Courtney Smith, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, USA
Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, USA

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Organizing Committee
Dr. A.K. Gosain, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Dr. Balaji Narasimhan, Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras
Dr. Jeff Arnold, U.S. Department of Agriculture-
Agricultural Research Service, USA
Dr. R. Srinivasan, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas
A&M University, USA
Courtney Smith, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, USA

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Scientific Committee
Karim Abbaspour, EAWAG, Switzerland  
A. K. Gosain, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
R. Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, USA
Eldho Iype, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Valentina Krysanova, PIK, Germany
Sue White, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Sandhya Rao, INRM Consultants, India
Fred F. Hattermann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
Germany
Xuesong Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
P. P. Mujumdar, Indian Institute of Science
N. H. Ravindranath, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Karim Abbaspour, EAWAG, Switzerland
Ann van Griensven, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands
Indrajeet Chaubey, Purdue University, USA
Xuesong Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
K. P. Sudheer, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Jeff Arnold, USDA-ARS, USA
Pramod Aggarwal, International Water Management Institute, Delhi, India
Philip Gassman, Iowa State University, USA
Nicola Fohrer, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
José M. Sánchez-Pérez, ECOLAB, France
Martin Volk, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany
Mike White, USDA-ARS, USA

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Scientific Committee
Arvind K. Nema, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi C. Allan Jones, Texas
AgriLife Research, USA
Antonio Lo Porto, IRSA, Italy
Mike White, USDA-ARS, USA
Pushpa Tuppad
Amit Garg, Public Systems Group
Narendra Signh Raghuwanshi, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Muthiah Perumal, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Antonio Lo Porto, IRSA, Italy
Jose Maria Bodoque Del Pozo, UCLM, Spain
D. Nagesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Kapil Dev Sharma, Government of India
Dhrubajyoti Sen, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Nicola Fohrer, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
Ann van Griensven, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands
Balaji Narasimhan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
P. Rajendra Prasad, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
Subashisa Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Jeff Arnold, USDA-ARS, USA
R. Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, USA
José M. Sánchez-Pérez, ECOLAB, France
Virginia Jin, USDA-ARS, USA
A. K. Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Nicola Fohrer, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
Ann van Griensven, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands
Jaehak Jeong, Texas AgriLife Research, USA

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Scientific Committee
Arup Kumar Sarma, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Ann van Griensven, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands
R. Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, USA
Pedro Chambel Leitão, IST-MARETEC, Portugal Dharmendra Saraswat,
University of Arkansas, USA
C. Allan Jones, Texas AgriLife Research, USA
Jaehak Jeong, Texas AgriLife Research, USA
Amit Garg, Public Systems Group
Kapil , Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Gupta
Valentina Krysanova, PIK, Germany
Martin Volk, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany
Pedro Chambel Leitão, IST-MARETEC, Portugal

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Scientific Committee
Jaehak Jeong, Texas AgriLife Research, USA
José M. Sánchez-Pérez, ECOLAB, France
D. R. Kaushal, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Pranab Mohapatra, University of South Carolina
Balaji Narasimhan, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
A. K. Gosain, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Sandhya Rao, INRM Consultants, India
B. S. Murty, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
B. R. Chahar, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Subashisa Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Dharmendra Saraswat, University of Arkansas, USA
Indrajeet Chaubey, Purdue University, USA
Balaji Narasimhan, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
A. K. Gosain, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
D. Nagesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Sharad Jain, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Kapil Dev Sharma, Government of India
Balaji Narasimhan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
D. Nagesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Rakesh Khosa, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khaz, New

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Foreword
It was such a satisfying experience to host at the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, the
2012 SWAT Conference and Workshops during July 16-20, 2012. Over the years, this event has become

globally a very coveted and eagerly awaited event.
The untiring efforts of Jimmy, Jeff, Srini (as Drs. J. R. Williams, J. G. Arnold, R. Srinivasan are known to the
SWAT community) with many other workers of their team saw the initial versions of SWAT (Soil and Water
Assessment Tool) to reach a status in later part of nineties where the user and developer community of
hydrological modelling across the Globe started accepting the SWAT as a product worth using. The popularity
was not only due to the fact that it was a very robust model, which indeed it is, but also because of the fact that
they were very sincere in extending a helping hand to whosoever wanted to use it and even participate in its
enhancement. While doing so they not only have helped tens of hundreds of scientists but also championed the
philosophy of collective development of the mathematical models that are essential to solve many of the recent
problems of water resources in a transparent manner where everybody is welcome to participate in any capacity.
I still remember like yesterday, although it was in 1996, when I approached Srini and Jeff that IIT Delhi shall
like to use the model, the reply was so positive and warm that a bond was created that is still going strong till
today.
The SWAT workshops have also become a part and parcel of these events where many of the budding
researchers are inducted into the use of SWAT model to solve the problems being faced in their countries.
For those who are still not connected to the model, SWAT is developed by a group of scientists from the United
States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS); the United States Department
of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) and Texas AgriLife Research. It 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.
Over one hundred and twenty papers were presented in SWAT 2012. It is for the first time that Non-SWAT
papers were also allowed in the conference to enable researchers working in the area of water resources to
interact with the SWAT community.
I take this opportunity to thank all the participants who participated in the conference and made it a grand
success. I am sure that they would have gone satisfied with the opportunity they got to interact with the best
researchers in the world and to listen to them. However, the total proceedings of the conference are available at
http://swat.tamu.edu/conferences/2012/ in the form of videos of the presentations. The present volume of the
full paper proceedings shall provide an opportunity to the researchers to access all the papers ranging over a
large cross section of the water resources problems being faced by the society. It shall also inspire an
enthusiasm in new entrants into the modelling by widening their understandings in the field of hydrologic
modelling. I wish everyone a very fruitful reading.

Dr. A. K. Gosain,
Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi - 110016, India

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Table of Contents

Session A1- Hydrology
Impact of Recharge Sources on Isotopic Composition and Microbiological Quality
of Groundwater-A Case Study from Punjab, India
Gopal Krishan 17-28

Hydrological Modeling of Small Watersheds of South Ponnaiyar Basin in the Soil
and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)
B.S. Polisgowdar 29-45

Session A2- Environmental Applications
Assessment of Groundwater Resources and Quality in Bist Doab region, Punjab,
India
M. Someshwar Rao 46-58

Precision Orchard Management System and Erosion Control
Janos Tamas 59-64

Session A3- Climate Change Applications

Evaluating the Change of Hydrological Process and Sedimaent Yield Considering
the Effect of Climate Change
Dao Nguyen Khoi 65-79

Hydrological Response to Climate Change in the Krishna Basin
B.D. Kulkarni 80-87

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