Urban Water Resources

Imteaz (Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Melbourne) provides a concise text that combines hydrology with applications such as design for drainage, drinking water supply, and wastewater treatment systems. While the subject matter treatment is mostly standard, it is especially well done here and supported by numerous mathematical examples. The design of water and wastewater treatment plants falls somewhat outside the scope of this book, yet it is covered, again in a concise rather than comprehensive way. In particular, little is said here about water quality. This book is about water quantity--getting water, storing it, moving it, and removing it. For these purposes, it provides a nice summary. The earlier chapters are relatively more comprehensive: they cover hydrology, probabilistic rainfall descriptions, flood prediction, and open channel flow. The author's intent is to integrate considerations of sustainability, and this purpose is well served in opening chapters addressing climate change, droughts, and rainfall variability. The final chapters discuss water conservation and recycling, and feature brief descriptions of green infrastructure approaches. Overall, this book is appropriate as an introductory text for undergraduates or for working professionals who want to learn some of the basics of this field. -- D. A. Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology, CHOICE, June 2020 Vol. 57 No. 10