60 Best Books on Hydrology

“Hydrology and Soil Conservation Engineering” Book Review: This second edition of the book provides a clear explanation on the topics like treatment of hydrology of watersheds, soil erosion problems, design and installation of soil conservation practices and structures, hydro-logic and sediment yield models, watershed management and water harvesting in the book. The book covers precipitation, abstraction losses, stream flow, runoff, frequency analysis of hydrologic events, hydrographs, flood routing, system, conceptual and dynamic models of runoff hydrograph and time series analysis. This book is targeted for undergraduate engineering students of agricultural engineering for courses in hydrology, and soil and water conservation engineering. This book also deals with soil erosion, controlling soil erosion, water harvesting, watershed management and field measurements. This book has practice questions at the end of each chapter. This book provides objective type questions. Other important chapters contained in the book include field practices,analysis and design of basic hydraulic structures and an entire chapter on watershed management.

“Engineering Hydrology” Book Review: This book is targeted for undergraduate level students in civil engineering and the concepts are explained in a simple and concise manner. The book focuses on hydrology concepts and its extensions to engineering. This book covers precipitation, abstractions from precipitations, streamflow measurement, runoff, hydrographs,floods, flood routing and groundwater. The points are covered in a logical way, and there are a wide range of solved examples given in the book. It’s main focus lies on Applied problems. Topics like elementary treatment of engineering hydrology as well as various problems dealing with are dealt in this book. Diagrams provided in this book are clear and error free. Concepts of GPS, GIS, remote sensing and their applications in the field of hydrology are elucidated. Readers can also find over 300 numerical and solved problems presented in the book. There are standard and simple descriptions on Indian scenarios of water resources with orientation to tropical climates and it contains ample number of solved examples. This book is mainly for civil engineering students.

“Groundwater” Book Review: This book on the subject of groundwater, is the guideline for the hydro-geology courses provided all over the country. This course is generally offered to students at the first to third graduate college year, preferably after elementary courses. It has also been revised from time-to-time to contain all the relevant changes happening each year. Chapters like all aspects of groundwater – investigation, development and utilisation are also provided in the subsequent chapters of the book.

“Manual of Soil and Water Conservation Practices” Book Review: This book covers all the techniques related to soil and water conservation structures. It also includes the technical details of various conservation techniques. Mainly targeted for agricultural engineering students, it provides technical support engineering students at undergraduate, postgraduate as well as PhD level. In addition, the book will be a valuable reference to professional and agricultural scientists working in the field of micro irrigation. Chapters contained in the book include Soil and water’ conservation, aspect of soil and water’ conservation structures etc.

“A Textbook of Hydrology” Book Review: This book is a teaching aid as well as a practical guide for undergraduate students pursuing hydro-logical design. It also covers the syllabus prescribed for the subject of hydrology by almost all the universities. Several important concepts such as hydro-logical cycles like precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, run-off, storage, ground water etc. are covered extensively by the author in this textbook. This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students.

“Introduction to Physical Hydrology” Book Review: Streamlined to facilitate student understanding, this fourth edition contains the latest techniques, methodologies and new problems, provides a comprehensive study of flow of water on the land and also the four major types of water: atmospheric, ground, soil, and surface. It also deals with the special requirements of climate and global hydrology which is the large-scale study of hydrology in order to understand the impact of the climate on water supply. This book is designed for undergraduate students of Physical Hydrology courses. It will also be of considerable value to students of engineering.

“Hydrology in Practice” Book Review: This book has been rewritten entirely in order to keep up with the modern and latest developments in the field of hydrology, both in approach and content. This book contains newer illustrations of Flood Studies Report and methods of the Flood Estimation in the form of diagrams to make the topic more understandable. Keeping in mind, the latest syllabus of various universities in India, Topical case studies are also included in this book and a detailed description is also provided by the author. A large number of solved numerical examples drawn from various university examinations have been given at the end of the theoretical part of each chapter. Second- and final-year undergraduate (and MS) students of hydrology in engineering, environmental science, and geography departments across the globe, as well as professionals in environmental protection agencies and consultancies, will find this book handy.

“Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering” Book Review: This book is designed for students of degree and diploma courses. This book covers flood forecasting and computer applications in water resources systems. This book has 500 objective questions. This book is written in simple language and covers subject matter in detail.

“Engineering Hydrology (Oxford Higher Education)” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate students of civil engineering students. This book explains a basic knowledge of water, water forms and locations, the hydrologic cycle and methods to analyze hydrograph applications. This book also explains simulation and synthetic methods in hydrology, rainfall-runoff relationships and statistical methods in hydrology.

“Engineering Hydrology” Book Review: This book starts with the introduction of engineering hydrology. This book covers precipitation, abstraction from precipitation, runoff, hydrograph analysis, hydrograph routing, groundwater, irrigation and water resource management, statistical method of hydrology and measurements of hydrologic variables. This book provides both objective and descriptive questions. This book also provides numerical questions.

“Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering” Book Review: This book discusses surface water hydrology, hydrologic processes, analysis and design. This book covers precipitation, infiltration, evaporation, streamflow-runoff estimation, evapo-transpiration, hydrograph, flood estimation, flood routing and reservoir and sedimentation.

“Elementary Engineering Hydrology” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate and diploma students of civil engineering. This book starts with the introduction of hydrology. This book covers hydrometeorology, evaporation and transpiration, precipitation, infiltration, hydrograph, runoff, floods, discharge measurement, flood routing and groundwater.

“Vadose Zone Hydrology” Book Review: This book is meant for hydrogeologists, geotechnical consultants and groundwater engineers. It will be essential for engineers working in the vadose zone. It explains the characterization and monitoring of the vadose zone. It provides an introduction to physical processes such as basic flow theory. It discusses the concepts of recharge how it is evaluated in the vadose zone. It also explains the hydraulic properties in the vadose zone. It deals with contaminants detection at the vadose zone. Applications of seepage detection, landfill monitoring, and soil gas investigation are provided.

“Conceptual Models of Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone” Book Review: It explains the importance of conceptual models and their development. It discusses the testing and refinement processes of conceptual models. It describes the fluid flow and transport mechanism. It explains the cost-effective contamination remedies. It deals with the identification of geochemical and environmental tracer data. It also includes case studies of conceptual models.

“Unsaturated Flow in Hydrologic Modeling: Theory and Practice (Nato Science Series C:)” Book Review: It contains the conference papers on unsaturated flow and its use in hydrologic modelling.

“Vadose Zone Hydrology: Cutting Across Disciplines” Book Review: It discusses vadose zone hydrology. It starts with the fundamentals of transport equations. It explains the soil properties and water movement in the vadose zone. It deals with advancements in vadose zone flow and transport modelling. It also explains the diffusion linked microbial metabolism and measurement techniques. It focuses on the experiment and management of soils. It ends with future research in vadose zone hydrology.

“Soil Physics: An Introduction” Book Review: This book is useful for graduate and undergraduate students. It explains the important physical properties of soil. Learn about the critical physical processes that involve mass transport and retention of water. Learn new concepts and numerical examples to understand principles in depth. This book clearly explains how water and solute flow through the soil. Learn about the different factors that influence the flow of water through the soil.

“Vadose Zone Processes” Book Review: The vadose zone process is a treatment of the movement of water through unsaturated media. This book covers the basic equations that govern the flow of water and the biogeochemistry of the Vadose environment. Learn about statistical description of Vadose processes and understand how results are derived. This book will be useful for civil engineering students and chemical engineering students. This book is useful to learn about pollution remediation and waste disposal.

“Practical Handbook of Soil, Vadose Zone, and Ground-Water Contamination: Assessment, Prevention, and Remediation” Book Review: This book gives information on basic concepts of contamination and the remediation of it. Learn how to control contamination from this book as it provides a clear explanation of scientific concepts. Important technical terms are well defined in this book. This text uses many figures and summary tables to show key concepts. This book provides concise information to learn about the advantages and disadvantages of various methods.

“Handbook of Vadose Zone Characterization & Monitoring (Geraghty & Miller Environmental Science and Engineering)” Book Review: This book gives information in a simple manner without complicated mathematical derivatives. This book is compiled by practitioners with good experience. The topics in this guide include basic principles of Vadose zone hydrology and monitoring techniques. Case studies are available in this book to let readers experience the actual field experiences. Get to know about the advantages and limitations of monitoring techniques. This book is useful for new practitioners in this field.

“Applied Hydrology” Book Review: This book serves as a textbook for the students of hydrology, civil or agricultural engineering. This book primarily focuses on surface water hydrology. The surface water hydrology is offered in three sections: hydrologic processes, hydrologic analysis and hydrologic design. There are several problems provided at the end of each chapter for self-assessment. The book is structured about the main idea of using the hydrologic system or control volume as a framework. In few cases, the theoretical improvements broad for enclosure in the text are provided as problems in the respective chapters. Solving these problems, students can participate in the growth of the subject. This book also provides the latest improvements and techniques of hydrology.

“Handbook of Applied Hydrology” Book Review: This book enfolds scientific and engineering basics and provides the latest methods, processes and technologies. Complete information is provided for the full range of ecosystems and models. Advanced topics come across the future of hydrology. This also includes climate change impacts, extraterrestrial water, social hydrology and water security. This book provides fully updated hydrology principles, methods and applications. This book covers various topics like data collection and processing, sediment and pollutant transport, etc. This book also provides information about systems hydrology, hydrology of large river and lake basis, applications and design, etc.

“Applied Principles of Hydrology” Book Review: This book benefits not only hydrology students, but also the students of ecology, geography and urban planning. This book provides the better understanding of hydrological principles. This book begins with the physical and chemical aspects that make water a distinctive substance. It advances with the step-by-step discussion of the water cycle. In this book, the scientific principles are demonstrated using real life examples. The ‘investigations’ sections provide realistic implications for measuring and/or interpreting the hydrological variables.

“Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering” Book Review: This book serves as a textbook for the students of hydrology, civil and agricultural engineering. This book explains the hydrological analysis of important topics like rainfall, infiltration, evaporation, runoff, etc. It provides the detailed information of floods control methods, flood forecasting and emergency evacuation. This book provides an explanation of the art of storage of flood flows in dam reservoirs. It also discusses the underground water storage for supplying water during non-monsoon for meeting various requirements. It also covers topics like computer applications in water resources systems and engineering economy in water resources planning. This book provides several objective questions which includes those from various competitive exams.

“Hydrology: Principles, Analysis and Design” Book Review: This book is designed for the students of civil and agricultural engineering, geology and earth sciences and the main branch of hydroscience i.e., hydrology. This book discusses fundamental hydrology. This book deals with all stages of hydrologic cycle and relevant topics. There is a different approach from empiricism, highlighting the hydrological data and hydrological design. This book provides worked out hydrological design problems at the end of each article, to demonstrate the principles involved. The problems for self-assessment are provided at the end of each chapter. It also provides the objective and intelligence questions at the end of every topic.

“Groundwater Hydrology” Book Review: This book serves the requirement of students of civil and environmental engineering, geology, hydrogeology and groundwater hydrology. A combined presentation of groundwater hydrology, treating fundamental principles, methods and problems encountered in the field as whole is provided in this book. This book includes many new developments that have occurred in the groundwater field. It discusses the computer applications in organising data and solving problems. It also provides the information about the computer applications in managing groundwater resources. This book focuses on the groundwater modelling methods. It also provides a detailed explanation of MODFLOW. This book also explains the surface investigations of groundwater and artificial recharge of groundwater.

“Introduction to Hydrology” Book Review: This book serves the students of hydrologic science, civil and agricultural engineering. This book basically covers the topics of underlying principles of hydrology. Further it provides the application of these principles to practical problems in the field. This book covers all the aspects of the hydrological cycle. This book is modified to deal with floods, droughts, potable water supply and urban drainage. This book introduces statistical analysis in the circumstance of hydrologic problem solving. Several solved problems are provided to enlarge the content presented in the text form.

Book Review: This book is very suitable for civil engineers, agricultural engineers and hydrologists. The book provides an unified approach to hydrology making the usage of hydraulic systems, control volumes as a mechanism that is used to analyze hydrologic problems. The book covers technologies like unit hydrographs, lumped flow routing, linear moment’s theory, resistant statistics concepts and hydrologic dataset statistics. The descriptions of the core concepts and its applications are very good.

Book Review: This book is very useful for readers who are interested in application of inferential statistics to hydrology and water resources. The book provides descriptions of mathematical properties of random variables related to hydrology and also deals with the usage of probability theory and mathematical statistics that is used to solve many problems related to hydrology. The book also aims to implement hydrologic data with the help of inferential statistics.

Book Review: This book discusses the causes of tendency, stochasticity and periodicity in hydrologic series. The book also carries out analysis of hydrologic processes and describes the sources of temporal non-stationarity along with the key points and methodologies of process analysis and information extraction. The book also provides many multivariate approaches for stochastic modeling taking into consideration the complexities of spatial and temporal hydrologic processes. The book also provides approaches to space property modeling along with the simulation of spatial and temporal processes.

“Stochastic and Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Environmental Engineering” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring latest information on each and every aspect of environmental engineering. The chapters of this book are majorly based on maximum annual series, partial duration series, droughts, storms, frequency analysis, fitting distribution, entropy analysis, and fractal analysis and describe all the important topics related to them. The regionalization techniques and distribution models are featured in this textbook along with their applications. The book will be an excellent resource for the practicing engineers, researchers, teachers and scientists of civil, water resource, environmental, management, and systems engineering. It will be equally important for the hydrologists, geographers, planners, statisticians, and meteorologists.

“Introduction Physical Hydrology” Book Review: The book aims in presenting the fundamental principles and concepts of hydrology. The book begins with an introduction of water types and hydrological cycles. The chapters of this book describe atmospheric water, groundwater, soil water, and surface water in detail. Many hydrological processes are featured in this text in order to explain the flow of water on the land. It also highlights principles of physical hydrology, climate hydrology, and global hydrology. The effect of climate on water supply is clearly explained in this text. The book consists of several solved and unsolved exercises for self-study and self-assessment of the readers.

“Elements of Physical Hydrology” Book Review: The book is a well-structured and comprehensive piece of writing featuring basic principles, concepts, and elements of physical hydrology. The initial chapters of this book cover hydrological cycle, water budgets, precipitation, evapotranspiration, fluid dynamics, Bernoulli equation, laminar and turbulent flows, open channel flow , flood movement, flood frequency analysis, and groundwater flow. The remaining chapters describe aquifer characterization, land subsidence, soil moisture dynamics, flow in the unsaturated zone, hydrologic controls, biotic controls, runoff generation, catchment models, water-food-energy nexus, globalization of water, and impacts of changing climate. The content of this book is reader friendly and nicely illustrated with the help of examples and problems.

“Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of writing featuring ongoing water research and latest management. The topics like desertification, remote sensing, qanat systems, architecture, and arsenic contamination are thoroughly explained. The chapters highlighting global, historic, and current perspectives on water scarcity are included in this text. The book features several approaches to water scarcity along with new research findings and scope in further research. For providing readers with relatable content and better practical knowledge the book contains many case studies. The book will be an asset for the students and professional related to environmental as well as sustainability issues.

“Fundamentals of Hydrology” Book Review: The book basically features freshwater resources, their management, and their effect on humans. The topics like hydrology, precipitation, evaporation, storage, runoff, analysis and modeling of stream flow, and water quality are discussed in detail. The hydrological processes, techniques, ideas, and concepts featured in this book are clearly explained with the help of examples and case-studies. Many questions and exercises are included in this text for self-study. The book will be suitable for the undergraduates, hydrologists, and engineers related to management of water resources.

“Advances in Statistical Sciences: Stochastic Hydrology” Book Review: The content of this book is inspired from workshops held at university of western Ontario. It clearly introduces the basic principles and key concepts of statistical sciences and hydrology. The chapters of this book describe Markov model, multivariate time series models, empirical modeling, and statistical approach to floods in detail. Solution of nonlinear stochastic differential equations and stochastic partial differential equations are also included in this text. The book also highlights applications of hydrology to rainfall and flood magnitude.

Book Review: This book provides an introduction to all the aspects of ground water management which includes assessment, development, utilization and management. The book also deals with the application of different formulae for different field conditions, processing, data collection, design principles and test procedures. The book also contains many case studies related to pump test data. The book also includes project description on irrigation methods and sprinkler and drip irrigation methods. This book is very suitable for students, researchers and professionals involved in the field of ground water development and management.

Book Review: This book is completely updated so as to cover all the latest advancements in the field of groundwater hydrology. The book very nicely presents groundwater hydrology along with fundamental principles, methods and problems. The book includes the role of computers for data organization, problem solving, groundwater resource management and many more. The book also provides special attention to modern methods of groundwater modeling along with a description of MODFLOW. This book is suitable for geology, civil and environmental engineering streams.

Book Review: This book provides a compiled view of various subjects and techniques related to the practice of groundwater and also provide a systematic description about the fundamentals of ground water technology thereby becoming very useful for undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers. The book also describes the model making techniques with the help of application of science, engineering, planning and management techniques. The book also discusses various issues that occur in groundwater hydrology along with many water quality issues. The book also demonstrates the application of system analysis techniques to groundwater engineering, planning and management.

“Groundwater Hydrology of Springs” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring latest theory and recent developments in managing and sustaining the water quality of springs. It covers many of the world’s largest springs, providing the reader to have a global perspective of engineering principles. The featured concepts, principles, and techniques are used to deal with the problems like mis-management and over exploitation. The chapters of this book cover spring and the aquifer, groundwater and contaminant transport models, management, and sustainability. The book delicately focuses students, researchers, professionals, engineers in the development of the groundwater hydrology of springs.

“Modeling Groundwater Flow and Pollution Softcover reprint of the original” Book Review: This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals in civil, environmental, geotechnical fields. The chapters of this book cover topics like modeling groundwater flow, acute contamination sources, and response to the system. This Book is certified by various international institutions and organizations. The book is written from both theoretical as well as practical point-of-view and aims in presenting latest information on the practical approach on problem sets in realistic situations. The applications of groundwater are discussed in detail.

“Ground-Water Vulnerability” Book Review: The book is written from both theoretical as well as practical point-of-view and aims in presenting latest information on fundamental principles and key concepts of groundwater vulnerability. The book consists of theory and applications of various models and their corresponding maps. It explains about the generation of models and maps by logistic regression and geographic information system respectively. The chapters of the book are nicely interpreted and hence provide easy-to-grab knowledge to the readers. This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals in geotechnical and environmental studies.

“Groundwater Dynamics in Hard Rock Aquifers” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring the latest information on structure and functioning of an aquifer in a granitic formation. The chapters of this book are majorly based on hydrological research, hard rock aquifers, pumping tests, analyses of aquifer parameters, water budgeting, governing equations, and simulation of flow. The book features geophysical, geological, and remote sensing applications in order to conceptualize an aquifer system. The chapters highlighting the applications of remote sensing and GIS in groundwater exploration as well as the applications of geostatistics in optimal groundwater are included in this text.

“Numerical Models in Groundwater Pollution” Book Review: The book aims in introducing the numerical methods and approach to groundwater pollution. The chapters in this book cover all the major topics and concepts related to finite and boundary element methods. The book also discusses advantages of these methods in groundwater hydrology. For better understanding of the readers the book includes computer programs, source code, and examples developed on the basis of the theoretical backgrounds of these methods. The book will be suitable for the students, researchers, professionals, and engineers related to geotechnical and civil branches.

“Groundwater Recharge from Run-Off, Infiltration and Percolation” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring latest theory and recent developments in groundwater management strategies. The chapters of the book are well-written and cover various topics like recharge flux, surface to surface transformation, groundwater issues, and modern approaches to determine groundwater recharge. The book also covers detailed analysis of the fate of groundwater recharge in hydraulic and geological means. This book is an excellent resource for the students and professionals in geotechnical engineering fields.

“Reference Book to Accompany Practical Problems in Groundwater Hydrology” Book Review: The book aims in presenting all the important topics, concepts, methods, and recent developments in the field of groundwater hydrology. The problems underlying in groundwater hydrology are discussed in detail. The book focuses on development of quantitative skills, data analysis and data exploration, and graphic technologies. To give better practical knowledge and relatable content to the readers many case studies and exercises are included in this text. The book will be useful for the students pursuing their career in groundwater engineering.

“Groundwater Hydrology” Book Review: It is designed for the students of civil engineering, agricultural engineering and researchers. This book discusses groundwater hydrology. It also discusses the application of theory and on the practical aspects of groundwater hydrology. It also explains the applications of remote sensing for survey and geological explorations for groundwater. This book consists of solved examples, exercises and numerical problems at the end of the chapters.

“Groundwater Hydrology” Book Review: This book is designed for civil engineering, geotechnical engineering and researchers. It focuses on assessment, development, utilization and management of groundwater. It also explains the information of hydrogeology. The topics which are covered in this book are theory of groundwater flow, groundwater-modeling techniques and management of groundwater quantity.

“Groundwater Hydrology: Conceptual and Computational Models” Book Review: This book focuses on groundwater flow problems. It covers the conceptual models of groundwater hydrology. It also discusses the interaction between the inputs, outputs and internal flow processes. Along with the theoretical portions it also covers the practical applications of groundwater hydrology.

“Numerical Groundwater Hydrology” Book Review: This book is designed for the students of civil, environmental and agricultural engineering. It focuses on the numerical problems of groundwater hydrology. The topics which are covered in this book are inverse modeling, numerical modeling and solute transport. It also consists of numerical questions, solved examples and exercises at the end of the chapter.

“OpenGeoSys-Tutorial: Computational Hydrology I: Groundwater Flow Modeling (SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences)” Book Review: This book is designed for the undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers. It deals with hydrological system analysis. It also focuses on the numerical modeling of coupled hydrological-hydrogeological systems. Along with the theoretical portions it also covers the practical applications of groundwater flow.

“Integrated Groundwater Management” Book Review: It is designed for the students, researchers and scientists. The main aim of this book is to deal with groundwater management. It discusses the theories and principles of groundwater management. It also focuses on hydroecological and hydrogeological science. It also explains to preserve the groundwater resource and helps to restore equilibrium.

“Groundwater and Seepage (Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering)” Book Review: This book is designed for the students of civil engineering, agricultural engineering, researchers and scientists. It discusses the basic part of soil mechanics. It provides the solutions of seepage problems. It also discusses the design and analysis of earth structures. The main aim of this book is to deal with groundwater management. This book contains the solved examples and numerical with answers at the end of the chapter.

“Mineral and Thermal Groundwater Resources” Book Review: It is designed for the students of civil, mechanical engineering, researchers and hydrogeologists. This book discusses the properties and uses of mineral and thermal groundwaters. It covers the theories and applications of groundwater resources. It also focuses on the diversity of mineral and thermal water resources. It explains the management of water resources and minerals.