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Streamflow Measurement

Third edition

By Reginald W. Herschy

We often have the dichotomy: ‘too little water or too much’. In either case streamflow measurement is crucial. Climate change could have a significant affect...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41342-8 (Taylor & Francis)

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Hydrometry, 3rd edition

A comprehensive introduction to the measurement of flow in open channels UNESCO-IHE Lecture Note Series

By Wubbo Boiten

Hydrometry presents a thorough introduction to the science of hydrometry: the measurement of flow in open channels. Dealing with both traditional techniques and innovative new...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46763-6 (Taylor & Francis)

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Urban Water Cycle Processes and Interactions

Urban Water Series - UNESCO-IHP

By Jiri Marsalek, Blanca Jimenez-Cisneros, Mohammad Karamouz, Per-Arne Malmquist, Joel Goldenfum, Bernard Chocat

Effective management of urban water should be based on a scientific understanding of the impact of human activity on both the urban hydrological cycle –...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45347-9 (Taylor & Francis)

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Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamics for Water Resources

Proceedings of the Conference on Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamic Systems (Zaragoza, Spain, 18-21 June 2007)

Edited by Pilar Garcia Navarro, Enrique Playán

Overland flow modelling has been an active field of research for some years, but developments in numerical methods and computational resources have recently accelerated progress,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44056-1 (Taylor & Francis)

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Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping

IAH-Selected Papers, volume 11

Edited by Andrzej J. Witkowski, Andrzej Kowalczyk, Jaroslav Vrba

This volume presents the contemporary issues surrounding groundwater pollution risk assessment and the application of vulnerability and risk assessment maps for the effective protection and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44561-0 (Taylor & Francis)

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Water Management Challenges in Global Change

Proceedings of the 9th Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI2007) and the Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM) conferences, Leicester, UK, 3-5 September 2007

Edited by B. Ulanicki, Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, David Butler, Peter L. M. Bounds, Fayyaz Ali Memon

Water Management Challenges in Global Change contains the proceedings of the 9th Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI2007) and the Sustainable Urban Water...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45415-5 (Taylor & Francis)

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Conservation Tillage Systems and Water Productivity - Implications for Smallholder Farmers in Semi-Arid Ethiopia

PhD, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

By Melesse Temesgen Leye

Conservation tillage systems have been adopted by farmers in many countries to solve the problem of land degradation and declining water productivity. Direct application of...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43946-6 (Taylor & Francis)

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Transport of Escherichia coli in Saturated Porous Media

PhD, Unesco-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

By Jan Willem Foppen

When wastewater infiltrates into the soil, groundwater may be contaminated. If the distance from source of pollution to point of groundwater abstraction is small, there...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44477-4 (Taylor & Francis)

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A Tradition in Transition, Water Management Reforms and Indigenous Spate Irrigation Systems in Eritrea

PhD, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

By Abraham Mehari Haile

An in-depth assessment of the century-old Wadi Laba indigenous spate irrigation system in Eritrea. This system has relied on earthern and brushwood structures and customary...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43947-3 (Taylor & Francis)

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Drinking Water Sector in Ghana -Drivers for performance

PhD, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

By Kwabena Biritwum Nyarko

This book examines the drivers for improved performance of the drinking water sector in Ghana by focussing on the role of the national macro-environment, water supply...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45366-0 (Taylor & Francis)

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