This volume introduces the general concepts and processes used in fresh water and watershed ecosystems. As an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on water, new in this edition are discussions on hydro-generated electricity and energy from other water sources, water footprint assessment and water management in a global scale.

Section I: Fresh Water and Hydrology 1. Aquifers: Groundwater Storage 2. Aquifers: Recharge 3. Artificial Reservoirs: Land Cover Change on Local Climate 4. Drainage and Water Quality 5. Endorheic Lake Dynamics: Remote Sensing 6. Eutrophication 7. Evaporation: Lakes and Large Bodies of Water 8. Evaporation and Energy Balance 9. Field Water Supply and Balance 10. Hydrologic Cycle 11. Hydrologic Modeling of Extreme Events 12. Hydrology: Environmental 13. Hydrology: Urban 14. Impervious Surface Area: Effects 15. Infiltration Systems and Nitrate Removal 16. Low-Impact Development Section II: Water Management 17. Groundwater Contamination 18. Groundwater: World Resources 19. Irrigation: River Flow Impact 20. Land Change and Water Resource Vulnerability 21. Pesticide Contamination: Groundwater 22. Pesticide Contamination: Surface Water 23. Stormwaters: Management 24. Stormwater: Urban Modeling 25. Surface Water: Nitrogen Enrichment 26. Surface Water: Nitrogen Fertilizer Pollution 27. Transpiration 28. Transpiration: Water Use Efficiency 29. Water Deficits: Development 30. Watershed Hydrology and Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LULCC) 31. Rain-Use Efficiency: Remote Sensing 32. Water Management: South Asia Section III: Water and Watershed Monitoring 33. Water Quality and Monitoring 34. Algal Bloom Monitoring: Remote Sensing 35. Mapping Impervious Cover in Catchments Using High Spatial Resolution Aerial Imagery 36. Analysis of Impervious Cover in Riparian Zones 37. Cyanobacteria in Inland Waters: Remote Sensing 38. Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis of Water Footprint Research 39. Calculation Method of Crop Water Footprint under Rain-Fed Condition 40. Optical Properties of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM): Poyang Lake