Water Resources Engineering: Textbook on hydrology, Hydraulics, groundwater, and stormwater systems

By Morgan Cadwell

Every water engineering decision begins with three practical questions: how much water, how fast is it moving, and where will it go next?

Following that chain from rainfall or groundwater to flow, storage, infrastructure, risk, and water quality demands more than a collection of formulas. Students and practitioners must connect hydrology with hydraulics, choose suitable methods, keep units consistent, interpret uncertain data, and understand when a familiar equation is being used outside its assumptions. They also need to see how a local design choice can change downstream flow, storage demand, environmental conditions, and long-term resilience.

Water Resources Engineering brings those connected decisions into one structured technical textbook. It moves from physical and analytical foundations to calculation methods, design applications, model interpretation, and integrated planning, giving readers a rigorous path from governing principles to practical engineering judgment.

Inside, you will:

Build fluency in water balance, fluid mechanics, engineering units, energy, momentum, and numerical methods.Analyze pipe networks, open channels, aquifers, wells, pumps, reservoirs, and hydraulic structures with clearly defined variables.Convert precipitation into infiltration, runoff, hydrographs, routed flows, and frequency-based design events.Apply the methods to water supply, energy production, urban drainage, detention, flood control, water quality, erosion, and sediment movement.Interpret terrain, rainfall, streamflow, and remote-observation data while understanding the role and limits of computer models.Reinforce learning through objectives, worked calculations, chapter summaries, reference tables, and practice problems with answers.

Across nineteen chapters, the book covers watershed analysis, pressurized and free-surface flow, groundwater, hydrologic processes, rainfall-runoff modeling, channel and reservoir routing, probability, climate adaptation, supply and distribution, hydropower, storm drainage, floodplain management, receiving-water processes, sedimentation, and sustainable planning. Appendices, notation, physical constants, roughness data, statistical tables, a glossary, and an index make the material easier to apply and revisit.

Designed for upper-level undergraduate and early graduate students, instructors, and practicing civil or environmental engineers, this book is technical rather than elementary. Readers with prior calculus and introductory fluid mechanics will gain the most from its equations, examples, practice problems, glossary, notation, and reference data.

Add this book to your library and start building a more connected, calculation-ready understanding of water systems, infrastructure, and risk.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HD99QZH3
• ISBN13: 9798191186856
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"