Overview

This fully revised edition provides a modern overview of the intersection of hydrology, water quality, and water management at the rural-urban interface. The book explores the ecosystem services available in wetlands, natural channels and ponds/lakes.

Part I: Hydrologic Cycle

As in the first edition, Part I examines the hydrologic cycle by providing strategies for quantifying each component: rainfall (with NOAH 14), infiltration, evapotranspiration and runoff.

Part II: Water Quality

Part II examines field and farm scale water quality with an introduction to erosion prediction and water quality.

Part III: Water Management

Part III provides a concise examination of water management on the field and farm scale, emphasizing channel design, field control structures, measurement structures, groundwater processes and irrigation principles.

Part IV: Basin-Scale Processes

Part IV then concludes the text with a treatment of basin-scale processes.

Software Tools

A comprehensive suite of software tools is available for download, consisting of Excel spreadsheets, with some public domain models such as HY-8 culvert design, and software with public domain readers such as Mathematica, Maple and TK solver.