Irrigation Engineering & Hydraulic Structures

2. Water Requirements Of Crops

3. Canal Irrigation System

4. Sediment Transport And Design Of Irrigation Channels

* Estimation Of Suspended Load In A Canal * Design
Procedure For Irrigation Canal

5. Lining Of Irrigation Canals And Economics Of Lining

* Types Of Linings And Their Construction And Uses

6. Reclaimation Of Water-Logged And Saline Soils For Agricultural Purposes

7. Hydrology And Design Flood Estimation

* Weather And Its Precipitation Potential * Precipitation
Gauges And Precipitation Data * Analysis Of Precipitation Data * Snowfall And
Snow Melt * Abstractions From Rainfall Including Infiltration And Evaporation *
Streamflow Measurement And Gauge Discharge Curves * Runoff And Factors Affecting
Runoff * Computing Runoff From Its Given Rainfall * Estimation Of Flood
Discharge

8. Rivers, Their Behaviour, Control And Training

9. Diversion Head Works

10. Hydraulic Jump And Its Usefulness In The Design Of Irrigation Structures

11. Theories Of Seepage And Design Of Weirs And Barrages

* Some Important Indian Barrages

12. Canal Falls

13. Regulators Modules, And Miscellaneous Canal Structures

* Canal Regulators * Canal Escapes * Metering Flumes *
Canal Outlets Or Modules * Miscellaneous Canal Structures

14. Cross Drainage Works

15. Construction Of Culverts And Small Road Bridges Across Drains
And Canals

* Causeways And Box Culverts

16. Ground Water Hydrology And Construction Of Wells And Tubewells

17. Dams In General And A few Dams In Particular

* Stories Of A Few Important Dams

18. Reservoirs And Planning For Dam Reservoirs

* Designing Reservoir Capacity * Flood Routing Or Flood
Absorption * Reservoir Regulation

19. Design And Construction Of Gravity Dams

* Stability Analysis * Construction Of Gravity Dams

20. Earthen Dams And Rock Fill Dams

* Seepage Analysis * Seepage Control In Earth Dams

21. Spillways, Energy Dissipators, And Spillway Gates

* Types Of Crest Gates

22. Outlet Works Through Dams And River Intakes

23. Pressure Conduits

24. Hydro-Electric Power

25. River Navigation

26. Tank Irrigation

27. Arch And Buttress Dams

28. Irrigation Revenue Rates

29. Chapterwise Multichoice Objective Questions

30. Test Paper On Objective Questions

31. Important Information To Students On UPSC Competitions
And Conventional
Questions Of Past Years

32. Objective Questions Of Engineering Service Exams

33. Objective Questions Of AMIE Exams (New Scheme)

Appendix Tables

Bibliography

Index

Irrigation is the Science of providing water to the lands in accordance with the requirements of the crops grown therein. It has been found to increase the productivity of rain-fed lands by as much as five times in a tropical country like India. The annual fresh water supply (runoff) in India in 1869 b.cum. However, the present utilisation (1997) is only 605 b.cum for all its uses. Out of this, about 500 b.cum, i.e. about 83%, is being used for irrigation alone. Even with such a huge percentage of utilisation of water for irrigation, we are just able to irrigate only about 40% of our gross cropped area. Additional waters are, thus, required to be developed for bringing additional cropped area under irrigation, to increase our food and fibre production. The techniques which are employed for development and management of water resources become vitally important in this context, and have been lucidly explained in Irrigation Engineering And Hydraulic Structures. The present edition has further been revised and updated with rewriting of certain articles and with addition of certain new topics and numerical examples. The question bank containing questions of Engineering Services and Civil Services Exams. has also been updated.