Environmental Hydrology
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Environmental Hydrology

  1. 695 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Environmental Hydrology

About this book

The late Professor Reds Wolman in his Foreword to the award-winning second edition said, "This is not your ordinary textbook. Environmental Hydrology is indeed a textbook, but five elements often found separately combine here in one text to make it different. It is eclectic, practical, in places a handbook, a guide to fieldwork, engagingly personal

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Yes, you can access Environmental Hydrology by Andy D. Ward,Stanley W. Trimble,Suzette R. Burckhard,John G. Lyon in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781466589414
eBook ISBN
9781466589445
Edition
3
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science
Index
Biological Sciences
4
Environmental 
Hydrology
(a)
(b)
FIGURE 
1.1 
Flooding 
in 
the 
Yellow 
River 
Plain.
TABLE 
1.4
Unimproved 
Drinking 
Water 
and 
Unimproved 
Sanitation 
Statistics 
for 
Five 
Countries 
in 
Asia 
and 
Five 
in 
Africa 
with 
the 
Highest 
Rates 
in 
the 
World
Unimproved 
Drinking 
Water
Unimproved 
Sanitation
Continent
Country
Population 
(million)
People 
(million)
People 
(%)
People 
(million)
People 
(%)
Asia
China
1341
119
9
477
36
India
1225
97
8
814
66
Indonesia
240
43
18
110
46
Bangladesh
149
28
19
66
44
Pakistan
174
14
8
91
52
Asia 
5 
Country 
Total
3128
301
10
1558
50
Africa
Nigeria
158
66
42
109
69
Ethiopia
83
46
55
66
80
Democratic 
Republic 
of 
the 
Congo
66
36
55
50
76
United 
Republic 
of 
Tanzania
45
21
47
40
89
Sudan
44
18
41
29
67
Africa 
5 
Country 
Total
396
187
47
294
74
10 
Country 
Asia 
& 
Africa 
Total
3524
488
14
1852
53
Rest 
of 
World
3349
295
9
658
20
World
6873
783
11
2510
37
Source:
Based 
on 
data 
reported 
in 
WHO 
(World 
Health 
Organization), 
Progress 
on 
Drinking 
Water 
and 
Sanitation: 
2012 
Update
. 
WHO/UNICEF 
Joint 
Monitoring 
Programme 
for 
Water 
Supply 
and 
Sanitation, 
2012.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Tribute
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword: For the Student
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Authors
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 - The Hydrologic Cycle, Water Resources, and Society
  10. Chapter 2 - Precipitation
  11. Chapter 3 - Infiltration and Soil Water Processes
  12. Chapter 4 - Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration
  13. Chapter 5 - Runoff and Drainage
  14. Chapter 6 - Stream Processes
  15. Chapter 7 - Uniform Open Channel Flow
  16. Chapter 8 - Hydraulic Control Structures
  17. Chapter 9 - Soil Conservation and Sediment Budgets
  18. Chapter 10 - Hydrology of Forests, Wetlands, and Cold Climates
  19. Chapter 11 - Hydrogeology
  20. Chapter 12 - Human Impacts on Water Resources
  21. Chapter 13 - Fundamentals of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Hydrologic Applications
  22. Chapter 14 - Practical Exercises on Conducting and Reporting Hydrologic Studies
  23. Appendix A - Unit Conversion Factors
  24. Appendix B - Glossary
  25. Appendix C - Precipitation Frequency-Magnitude Information for the United States
  26. Appendix D - Hydrologic Soil Groupand Erodibility Factors for the Most Common Soils in Each State
  27. Appendix E - Sources of Data and Images
  28. References
  29. Back Cover