Hydrology Projects I and II aim to ‘support major aspects of India’s National Water Policy, particularly

with regard to water allocation, and the planning and management of water resources development at
the national, state, basin, and individual project levels. Hydrology Project-II is a sequel to its
predecessor, Hydrology Project-I, which aimed to improve hydrometeorological data collection
procedures in nine states and six central agencies. Hydrology Project-II builds upon the earlier project’s
Hydrological Information System, through broadening the area of application to thirteen states and
eight central agencies, and through various ‘vertical extension’ activities such as the current project. This
project aims to develop Hydrological Design Aids to improve upon current design practices and to
standardise those practices for uniform use all over the country. One of the first steps in enabling the
development of such Hydrological Design Aids is to assess the current, relevant, state-of-the-art in tools
and techniques used in India and around the world, and to review the international state-of-the-art with
a view to transferring those tools and techniques for use in India. This report reviews the state of the art
in the three key study areas: assessing water resource availability; estimating the design flood; and
sedimentation rate estimation. The assessment is undertaken for the international context with
reference to applicability in India. The main purpose of this review of the state-of-the-art in the three
key study areas is to inform the process of development of three Hydrological Design Aids, one for each
of those key study areas. The international state of the art is reviewed to enable a comparison with the
procedures currently being carried out in India, and to help identify those techniques which would offer
an improvement over current methods and that could sensibly be transferred for use in India. The
report makes specific recommendations of those internationally employed tools and techniques that the
authors believe to be suitable for use in India. The three matrices below (Tables 0.1-0.3) summarise the
findings of the report. There is one matrix per Hydrological Design Aid. Each matrix presents the tools
and techniques for the Indian and international contexts, grouped according to their areas of
application. Each matrix, and each area of application, also presents a priority for those tools and
techniques that could sensibly and usefully be employed as part of each Hydrological Design Aid under
this project.