Elementary Irrigation Engineering
The book Elementary Irrigation Engineering has been written to meet the needs of Diploma students of Civil engineering for their course in irrigation engineering. It deals with the basics of major topics related to irrigation engineering.
The first chapter introduces irrigation, its development in India, and different irrigation methods. Hydrological aspects of irrigation engineering have been introduced in Chapter 2. Soil-water-plant relationships and water requirement of crops have been dealt with in Chapter 3.Well irrigation has been described in Chapter 4. Different aspects of canal irrigation have been discussed in Chapters 5 and 6. Basic features of planning and design of major canal structures (such as canal regulation and cross-drainage structures, and canal head works) have been described in Chapters 7, 8, and 10. Chapter 9 deals with river training methods, while Chapter 11 deals with basic aspects of major hydraulic structures such as dams, reservoirs, and spillways.
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