Content: The course is designed to expose students to soil water flow equation, infiltration- vertical and horizontal infiltration and infiltrability equations, internal drainage and redistribution, surface and subsurface drainage, soil evaporation, soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, water balance, and groundwater flow and groundwater flow equations.

 Objective: To introduce students to the physical interpretation of phenomena which govern hydrological events related to soil

Reading materials

1. Gupta, B.L. and Gupta, A. 1992. Engineering Hydrology. 2nd Edn. Standard Publishers, New Delhi.
2. Kutilek, M. and Nielsen, D.R. 1994. Soil Hydrology. Catena Verlag, 38162 Germany.
3. Ritzema, H.P. (ed.) 1994. Drainage Principles & Application. 2nd Edn., ILRI Publication 16, Wageningen, The Netherlands.