Encyclopedia of water Science
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Encyclopedia of water Science

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Encyclopedia of water Science

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Filled with figures, images, and illustrations, Encyclopedia of Water Science, Second Edition provides effective concepts and procedures in environmental water science and engineering. It unveils a wide spectrum of design concepts, methods, and solutions for enhanced performance of water quality, treatment, conservation, and irrigation methods, as well as improved water efficiency in industrial, municipal, and agricultural programs. The second edition also includes greatly enhanced coverage of streams and lakes as well as many regional case studies.

An International Team Addresses Important Issues

The only source to provide full coverage of current debates in the field, the encyclopedia offers professional expertise on vital issues including:

  • Current laws and regulations
  • Irrigation management
  • Environmental water economics
  • Agroforestry
  • Erosion control
  • Nutrient best management practices
  • Water sanitation
  • Stream and lake morphology and processes

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    A direct and reliable source for best practices in water handling, preservation, and recovery, the encyclopedia examines challenges in the provision of safe water supplies, guiding environmental professionals as they face a worldwide demand for sanitary and affordable water reserves.

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    Table of contents

    1. Cover
    2. Half Title
    3. Title Page
    4. Copyright Page
    5. Contents
    6. Contributors
    7. Topical Table of Contents
    8. Preface to Second Edition
    9. Preface to First Edition
    10. Academic Disciplines
    11. Acid Rain and Precipitation Chemistry
    12. African Market Garden
    13. Agricultural Runoff: Characteristics
    14. Agroforestry: Enhancing Water Use Efficiency
    15. Alluvial Fan
    16. Ancient Greece: Agricultural Hydraulic Works
    17. Ancient Greece: Hydrologic and Hydraulic Science and Technology
    18. Ancient Greece: Urban Water Engineering and Management
    19. Antitranspirants: Film-Forming Types
    20. Antitranspirants: Stomata Closing Types
    21. Aquifers
    22. Aquifers: Artificial Recharge
    23. Aquifers: Ogallala
    24. Aquifers: Recharge
    25. Aquifers: Transmissivity
    26. Aral Sea Disaster
    27. Arctic Hydrology
    28. Boron
    29. Bound Water in Soils
    30. Brahmaputra Basin
    31. Canal Automation
    32. Chemical Measurement
    33. Chemigation
    34. Chernobyl Accident: Impacts on Water Resources
    35. Chesapeake Bay
    36. Chromium
    37. Conservation: Tillage and No-Tillage
    38. Consumptive Water Use
    39. Crop Coefficients
    40. Crop Development Models
    41. Crop Plants: Critical Developmental Stages of Water Stress
    42. Crop Residues: Snow Capture by
    43. Cyanobacteria in Eutrophic Freshwater Systems
    44. Dam Removal
    45. Darcyā€™s Law
    46. Databases
    47. Deltas
    48. Desalination
    49. Drainage and Water Quality
    50. Drainage Coefficient
    51. Drainage: Controlled
    52. Drainage: Hydrologic Impacts
    53. Drainage: Inadequacy and Crop Response
    54. Drainage: Irrigated Land
    55. Drainage: Land Shaping
    56. Drainage: Materials
    57. Drainage: Modeling
    58. Drainage: Soil Salinity Management
    59. Drinking Water Supply Distribution Systems
    60. Drip Lines and Emitters: Acidification for Prevention of Clogging
    61. Drip Lines and Emitters: Chlorination for Disinfection and Prevention of Clogging
    62. Drought
    63. Drought Hardening and Pre-Sowing Seed Hardening
    64. Drought: Avoidance and Adaptation
    65. Drought: Management
    66. Drought: Resistance
    67. Dryland and Semiarid Regions: Research Centers
    68. Dryland Cropping Systems
    69. Dryland Farming
    70. Dust Bowl Era
    71. El Nino
    72. Energy Dissipation Structures
    73. Erosion and Precipitation
    74. Erosion and Productivity
    75. Erosion Control: Mechanical
    76. Erosion Control: Tillage/Residue Methods
    77. Erosion Control: Vegetative
    78. Erosion Problems: Historical Review
    79. Erosion Research: History
    80. Erosion Research: Instrumentation
    81. Erosion: Accelerated
    82. Erosion: Bank
    83. Erosion: Prediction
    84. Erosion: Process Modeling
    85. Eutrophication
    86. Evaporation
    87. Evaporation and Eddy Correlation
    88. Evaporation and Energy Balance
    89. Evaporation from Lakes and Large Bodies of Water
    90. Evaporation from Soils
    91. Evapotranspiration: Canopy Architecture and Climate Effects
    92. Evapotranspiration: Formulas
    93. Evapotranspiration: Greenhouses
    94. Evapotranspiration: Reference and Potential
    95. Evapotranspiration: Remote Sensing
    96. Evapotranspiration: Weather Station Network Information
    97. Everglades
    98. Farm Ponds
    99. Fertilizer and Pesticide Leaching: Irrigation Management
    100. Field Water Supply and Balance
    101. Filtration and Particulate Removal
    102. Floodplain Management
    103. Floods and Flooding
    104. Flouride
    105. Flow Measurement: History
    106. Fluvial Islands
    107. Frozen Soil: Water Movement in
    108. Furrow Dikes
    109. Ganges River
    110. Giant Reed (Arundo donax): Effects on Streams and Water Resources
    111. Global Temperature Change and Terrestrial Ecology
    112. Groundwater: Contamination
    113. Groundwater: Contamination, Arsenic
    114. Groundwater: Mapping Levels
    115. Groundwater: Measuring Levels
    116. Groundwater: Mining
    117. Groundwater: Modeling
    118. Groundwater: Modeling Using Numerical Methods
    119. Groundwater: Pollution from Mining
    120. Groundwater: Pollution from Nitrogen Fertilizers
    121. Groundwater: Pollution from Phosphorous Fertilizers
    122. Groundwater: Pumping and Land Subsidence
    123. Groundwater: Pumping Methods
    124. Groundwater: Quality
    125. Groundwater: Quality and Irrigated Agriculture
    126. Groundwater: Regulation
    127. Groundwater: Saltwater Intrusion
    128. Groundwater: Western United States
    129. Groundwater: World Resources
    130. Hydrologic Cycle
    131. Hydrologic Management of Contaminated Sites Using Vegetation
    132. Hydrologic Process Modeling
    133. Hydrology Research Centers
    134. Hypoxia: Gulf of Mexico
    135. Internet
    136. Irrigated Agriculture: Economic Impacts of Investments
    137. Irrigated Agriculture: Endangered Species Policy
    138. Irrigated Agriculture: Historical View
    139. Irrigated Agriculture: Managing toward Sustainability
    140. Irrigated Agriculture: Social Impacts
    141. Irrigated Water: Market Role in Reallocating
    142. Irrigated Water: Polymer Application
    143. Irrigation Design: Steps and Elements
    144. Irrigation Districts and Similar Organizations
    145. Irrigation Economics: Global
    146. Irrigation Economics: United States
    147. Irrigation Management: Humid Regions
    148. Irrigation Management: Tropics
    149. Irrigation Return Flow and Quality
    150. Irrigation Sagacity (IS)
    151. Irrigation Scheduling: Plant Indicators (Field Application)
    152. Irrigation Scheduling: Plant Indicators (Measurement)
    153. Irrigation Scheduling: Remote Sensing Technologies
    154. Irrigation Scheduling: Soil Water Status
    155. Irrigation Scheduling: Water Budgeting
    156. Irrigation Systems: Drip
    157. Irrigation Systems: History
    158. Irrigation Systems: Subsurface Drip
    159. Irrigation: Deflcit
    160. Irrigation: Efficiency
    161. Irrigation: Frost Protection and Bloom Delay
    162. Irrigation: Impact on River Flows
    163. Irrigation: Metering
    164. Irrigation: Preplant
    165. Irrigation: Saline Water
    166. Irrigation: Sewage Effluent Use
    167. Irrigation: Site-Specific
    168. Irrigation: Sprinklers (Mechanical)
    169. Irrigation: Supplemental
    170. Irrigation: Surface
    171. Isotopes
    172. Journals
    173. Karst Aquifers
    174. Karst Aquifers: Water Quality and Water Resource Problems
    175. La Nina
    176. Land Drainage: Subsurface
    177. Land Drainage: Wells
    178. Leaf Water Potential
    179. Library Resources
    180. Livestock and Poultry Production:Water Consumption
    181. Livestock Water Quality Standards
    182. Livestock: Water Harvesting Methods
    183. Low-Impact Development
    184. Manure Management: Beef Cattle Industry Requirements
    185. Manure Management: Dairy
    186. Manure Management: Poultry
    187. Manure Management: Swine
    188. Marketing
    189. Matric Potential
    190. Microbial Sampling
    191. Mining Impact: Metals
    192. Natural Levees
    193. Neuse River
    194. Nitrogen Measurement
    195. Nonpoint Source Pollution (NPSP)
    196. Nutrients: Best Management Practices
    197. Observation Wells
    198. On-Farm Irrigation Flow Measurement
    199. Open-Channel Flow Rate Measurements
    200. Open-Channel Spillways
    201. Oxygen Measurement: Biologicalā€“Chemical Oxygen Demand
    202. Pathogens: General Characteristics
    203. Pathogens: Transport by Water
    204. Pesticide Contamination: Groundwater
    205. Pesticide Contamination: Surface Water
    206. Pfiesteria Piscicida
    207. pH
    208. Pharmaceuticals in Water Supplies
    209. Phosphorus: Inputs into Freshwater from Agriculture
    210. Phosphorus: Measurement
    211. Phosphorus: Transport in Riverine Systems
    212. Plant Water Stress: Exposure during Specific Growth Stages
    213. Plant Water Stress: Optional Parameters for Stress Relief
    214. Plant Water Use: Stomatal Control
    215. Plant Yield and Water Use
    216. Plants: Critical Growth Periods
    217. Plants: Osmotic Adjustment
    218. Plants: Osmotic Potential
    219. Plants: Salt Tolerance
    220. Platte River
    221. Pollution: Point Source (PS)
    222. Porous Pavements
    223. Precipitation: Distribution Patterns
    224. Precipitation: Forms
    225. Precipitation: Measurement
    226. Precipitation: Modification
    227. Precipitation: Remote Sensing Measurement
    228. Precipitation: Simulation Models
    229. Precipitation: Stochastic Properties
    230. Precipitation: Storms
    231. Precision Agriculture and Water Use
    232. Precision Conservation
    233. Professional Societies
    234. Psychrometry: Accuracy, Interpretation, and Sampling
    235. Psychrometry: Theory, Types, and Uses
    236. Pumps: Displacement
    237. Pumps: Internal Combustion Engines
    238. Rainfall Shelters
    239. Rainfed Farming
    240. Rainwater Harvesting
    241. Rangeland Management: Enhanced Water Utilization
    242. Rangeland Water Yield: Influence of Brush Clearing
    243. Rangelands: Water Balance
    244. Research Organizations
    245. Residential Irrigation Water Use and Control
    246. Reverse Osmosis
    247. Richardsā€™ Equation
    248. Ring and Tension Infiltrometers
    249. Riparian Geomorphology
    250. River Channelization
    251. River Channels
    252. Rural Water Supply: Water Harvesting
    253. Sacramentoā€“San Joaquin Delta
    254. Saline Seeps
    255. Saline Water
    256. Salton Sea
    257. Satellite Sensing: Atmospheric Water
    258. Scaling Processes in Watersheds
    259. Seas: Dead and Dying
    260. Sediment Budgets
    261. Sediment Load
    262. Selenium
    263. Software Development
    264. Soil Macropores: Water and Solute Movement
    265. Soil Moisture Measurement by Feel and Appearance
    266. Soil Water Measurement: Capacitance
    267. Soil Water Measurement: Granular Matrix Sensors
    268. Soil Water Measurement: Gravimetric
    269. Soil Water Measurement: Neutron Thermalization
    270. Soil Water Measurement: Soil Probes
    271. Soil Water Measurement: Tensiometers
    272. Soil Water Measurement: Time Domain Reflectometry
    273. Soil Water: Antecedent
    274. Soil Water: Capillary Rise
    275. Soil Water: Diffusion
    276. Soil Water: Energy Concepts. Logsdon
    277. Soil Water: Flow under Saturated Conditions
    278. Soil Water: Flow under Unsaturated Conditions
    279. Soil Water: Functions in Pedostructure
    280. Soil Water: Hysteresis
    281. Soil Water: Plant-Available
    282. Soil Water: Salinity Measurement
    283. Soil Water: Sensor-Based Automatic Irrigation of Vegetable Crops
    284. Soils: Field Capacity
    285. Soils: Hydraulic Conductivity Rates
    286. Soils: Hygroscopic Water Content
    287. Soils: Permanent Wilting Points
    288. Soils: Water Infiltration
    289. Soils: Water Percolation
    290. Soils: Waterborne Chemicals Leaching through
    291. Stomatal Responses to the Environment: Quantifying
    292. Storativity and Specific Yield
    293. Stormwater Management
    294. Streambank Stabilization
    295. Summer Fallow
    296. Surface Water: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
    297. Surface Water: Nitrogen Enrichment
    298. Surface Water: Pollution by Nitrogen Fertilizers
    299. Surface Water: Pollution by Surface Mines
    300. Surface Water: Quality and Phosphorous Applications
    301. Surface Water: Western United States Law
    302. Suspended-Sediment Transport Measurement
    303. Tailwater Recovery and Reuse
    304. Tamarisk
    305. Timber Harvesting: Influence on Water Yield and Water Quality
    306. Time Domain Reflectometry: Salinity and Solute Measurement
    307. Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
    308. Transpiration
    309. Transpiration: Carbon Dioxide and Plants
    310. Transpiration: Efficiency
    311. Transpiration: Scaling from Leaves and Canopies
    312. Transpiration: Water Use Efficiency
    313. Two-Stage Channel Geometry: Active Floodplain Requirements
    314. Uptake by Plant Roots
    315. Uptake by Plant Roots: Modeling Water Extraction
    316. Urban Hydrology
    317. Urban Water Quality
    318. Vadose Zone and Groundwater Protection
    319. Vapor Transport in Dry Soils
    320. Virtual Water
    321. Virtual Water: Economic Perspective
    322. Virtual Water: Measuring Flows around the World
    323. Wastewater Use in Agriculture: Agronomic Considerations
    324. Wastewater Use in Agriculture: Empirical Evidence
    325. Wastewater Use in Agriculture: Public Health Considerations
    326. Wastewater Use in Agriculture: Saline and Sodic Waters
    327. Water Balance Scheduling in Arid Regions
    328. Water Footprints
    329. Water Harvesting
    330. Water Properties
    331. Water Quality: Modeling
    332. Water Quality: Range and Pasture Land
    333. Water Quality: Sampling of Runoff from Agricultural Fields
    334. Wellhead Protection
    335. Wells: Drilling
    336. Wells: Hydraulics
    337. Wetlands and Petroleum
    338. Wetlands as Treatment Systems
    339. Wetlands: Ecosystems
    340. Wind Erosion and Water Resources
    341. Yellow River
    342. Index