Customer Reviews

Environmental Hydrology, Second Edition

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
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I purchased this book to use in Dr. Wards hydrology class and was a bit disappointed with it. This was due to the misleading questions at the end of the chapters that lacked in text data to answer the questions. The most sever of these were in chapter 9 in which you were supplied with charts/tables from agricultural data to calculate the sediment budget of housing development, construction, and forested environments (Q. 9.4, 9.6). Also tables cited in text pointed to wrong information or did not exist at all (Chapt9, Pg. 263, 9.5.4). I gave this book a 2 star because i spent hours of additional time working out problems that could not be answered with the data contained in the book, I also had to explain to the teaching assistant that they were doing the problems wrong because they were using data not applicable to the problems being calculated. (funny thing is i got some bonus points to keep my mouth shut because they told the rest of the students the wrong way to do the problem)

Environmental hydrology is an excellent text for undergraduate engineering students taking their first-course in hydrology. Now, as a practicing professional, I use this book regularly as a desk reference.

This was a required textbook for one of my hydrology courses. It's a great addition to my library, good reference book.

I found this book to be a very good introduction to an important topic, suitable for undergraduate and graduate students.

I received the book in perfect conditions, much earlier than I expected. It was really a good experience and I recommend it.

A decent book that covers most part of hydrology. But it is lacking depth and the explanation is sometimes not clear