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Contents: Foreword/Ntin Karmalkar. Preface/B. Mahabaleswar. Acknowledgements/Subhajyoti Das. 1. Introduction/Subhajyoti Das. Part I: Water Resources of Western and Central Regions of India: Perspectives. 2. Ground Water Management and Sustainability in India: The Way Forward/K. C. Naik. 3. Ground Water Resources of Western Region of India/G.C. Pati. 4. Surface and Ground Water Resources of Maharashtra: Status, Management, Governance Issues and Future Policy/Vidyanand Ranade. Part II: Resource Potential and Development. 5.Surface Water Resources of Maharashtra: Potential, Development and Management Issues/Dattakumar S. Chaskar and Ashok Kumar Kharya. 6. Groundwater Development and Management in Maharashtra State, India/Prabhat K. Jain and Nelofar Khan. 7. Quality Assessment of Ground Water in Coastal Maharashtra with Special Reference to Sea Water Intrusion/S. S. Hegde, Anu Radha Bhatia, Catherine Louis and R. K. Sharma. 8. Water Crisis of Gujarat and Prospects in Water Sector/Vivek P. Kapadia. 9. Strategies for Ground Water Resources Management to Facilitate Water Security in Gujarat/R. C. Jain. 10. Groundwater Scenario of North Gujarat: Water Conservation and Recharge Practices/A. K. Jain and D. P. Pati. 11. Surface Water Scenario in Rajasthan State, India/L. N. Mathur. 12. Groundwater Resources of Rajasthan: Status, Issues and Strategies/Sayelli Tembhurne, S. K. Pareek, S. K. Jain and Kaveri Salunke. 13. Ground Water Quality of Rajasthan with Special Reference to Fluoride/D. D. Ozha. 14. Surface Water Resources of Madhya Pradesh: An Overview/Rabindra N. Tiwari and Pravin Kumar Tiwari. 15. Ground Water Conservation and Artificial Recharge in Madhya Pradesh: A Pragmatic Approach/Seraj Khan, P. K. Jain and K. Paramasivam. 16. Surface Water Resources of Chhattisgarh: An Overview/Rabindra N. Tiwari, Pravin Kumar Tiwari. 17. Ground Water Resources of Chhattisgarh: Resource Potential, Status, Management Issues and Future Strategies/Sunil Kumar and A. K. Patre. 18. Sustainable Development and Management of Groundwater of Chhattisgarh: An Overview/S. K. Samanta, S. Sarkar, A. K. Patre and J. R. Verma. 19. Water Resources in Goa/Sandip Nadkarni. 20. Delineation of Aquifers through Ground Water Exploration in Goa State/A. Subburaj, Davithuraj  and A. Suresha. 21. Assessment of Groundwater Pollution Potential of Goa using an Indexing Approach (Abhesht & Galdit Models)/B. K. Purandara, V. Kunhambu, Davithuraj , Vidya Sujitha, Sudhir Kumar, J. V. Tyagi and A. Suresha. Part III: Resource Management and Strategies: Science and Technology 22.Water Resources Management in India: A Peep Through Ages/M. L. Jhanwar. 23. Aquifers: Forging the Convergence Between Groundwater and Communities in the Heterogeneous Groundwater Systems of Western and Central India/Himanshu Kulkarni, Neha Bhave, Devdutt Upasani and Rakesh Gupta. 24. Ground Water Resources of Gujarat: Status of Development, Management Strategy and Policy/Anoop Nagar. 25.Groundwater Scenario, Issues and Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Rajasthan, India/L. N. Mathur. 26. Delineation of Phreatic Basaltic Aquifers in the Upper Nira River Basin, India and Evaluating the Efficacy of Methodologies Used for Estimating their Groundwater Potential – A Case Study/V. Krishnamurthy and Raymond A. Duraiswami. Annexure.