Content: The course is designed to cover Global hydrological cycle, rainfall-runoff relations, streamflow and hydrographs, frequency analysis of runoff data and sedimentation in reservoirs. It also provides students with groundwater flow and geologic formations, basic concepts in soil moisture and soil moisture potentials, interrelationships between groundwater and surface water, elementary theory of groundwater movement, salt water encroachment, dispersion in soil water encroachment and flow of a non-homogeneous fluid in a porous medium.

Objectives:

1. To provide students with the knowledge of surface and groundwater hydrology
2. To the knowledge to environmental sanitation and water quality.

Reading materials

1. Goodman, A.S. 1984. Principles of Water Resources Planning. Englewood Cliffs. N.J. Prentice Hall.
2. Hillel, D. 1980. Applications of Soil Physics. Academic Press, Inc. New York.
3. Mather, J.R. 1984. Water Resources. John Wiley, New York.
4. Montgomery, C.W. 1995. Environmental Geology. WMC Brown Publishers.
5. Ward, C.H. Giger, W. and McCarty, P.L. (eds.) 1985. Groundwater Quality. John Wiley & Sons, New York.