Principles and Practices of Water Management

This book is written to serve as a reference/guide book for the students of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and field practitioners. This book fills the need for an up-to date comprehensive text on irrigation water management for the students at under graduate and post graduate levels. The regional cropping systems under irrigated and non-irrigated tracts are incorporated in this book which will serve as a valuable guide book to the persons working with farming communities. The coverage of eighteen chapters brings out different aspects of water management which includes soil-plant-water relationships, evapotranspiration, water requirement of crops, drainage and drainage water quality, watershed management, etc. Each chapter is complete and illustrated in easy and simple languages.