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Contents: Preface. Part I: Theory. 1. Water harvesting: introduction. 2. Water harvesting techniques. 3. Runoff harvesting. 4. Short-term runoff harvesting techniques. 5. Long-term runoff harvesting techniques. 6. Farm pond. 7. Earthen dam. 8. Percolation ponds. 9. Nala bunding. 10. Soil erosion control structure. 11. Permanent structures for soil conservation and gully control. 12. Permanent Gully control structures – design procedure. 13. Hydraulic jump. Part II: Practicals. 1. Study of different types of farm ponds. 2. Computation of storage capacity of embankment type farm pond. 3. Design of dugout farm ponds. 4. Design of percolation pond and Nala bunds. 5. Runoff measurement using H-Flume. 6. Exercise on hydraulic jump. 7. Exercise on energy dissipation in water flow. 8. Hydrologic, hydraulic and structural design of drop spillway and stability analysis. 9. Design of SAF stilling basin. 10 hydrologic, hydraulic and structural design of drop inlet spillway. 11. Design of small earthen embankment. Glossary/terminologies. Appendix.  Conversion tables. Index.