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MODELLING HYDROLOGIC REGIME OF LAKSHMANATIRTHA

WATERSHED, CAUVERY RIVER

T.V. Ramachandraa,b,c,*, Nupur Nagard, Vinay Sa, Bharath H Aithal a,b

aEnergy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences [CES], bCentre for Sustainable Technologies (astra)
cCentre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP]
dDepartment of Civil Engineering ,NITK Surathkal,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560 012, India, *Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in.

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