Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Lead Editor -- About the Senior Editor-in-Chief -- About the Editor -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword 1 -- Foreword 2 -- Preface 1 -- Preface 2 -- Preface 3 -- PART I: Management of Saline/Sodic Stress: Field Practices -- 1: Nomenclature and Reclamation of Sodic (Alkali) Soils Using Gypsum: A Review of Historical Perspective -- 2: Soil Salinity Management in Fruit Crops: A Review of Options and Challenges -- 3: Role of Conservation Agriculture in Mitigating Soil Salinity in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India -- PART II: Physiological and Molecular Innovations to Enhance Salt Tolerance -- 4: Physiological and Biochemical Changes in Plants Under Soil Salinity Stress: A Review -- 5: Biochemical, Physiological, and Molecular Approaches for Improving Salt Tolerance in Crop Plants: A Review -- 6: Genomics Technologies for Improving Salt Tolerance in Wheat -- PART III: Adaptations and Screening of Plants Under Water Logging and Salinity Stresses -- 7: Morpho-Biochemical and Molecular Markers for Screening and Assessing Plant Response to Salinity -- 8: Plants Under Waterlogged Conditions: An Overview -- PART IV: Non-Conventional and High-Value Crops for Salt-Affected Lands -- 9: Potential and Role of Halophyte Crops in Saline Environments -- 10: Approaches for Enhancing Salt Tolerance in Seed Spices -- Index.

Note: Intro -- MODERN HYDROLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE WATER DEVELOPMENT -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A note for students and teachers -- 1 Fundamentals of hydrology -- 1.1 Properties of water -- 1.2 Common water quality parameters -- 1.3 Hydrologic cycle and global water distribution -- 1.4 Units and dimensions -- 1.5 Significant figures and digits -- 2 Surface water hydrology -- 2.1 Lakes -- 2.2 Glaciers -- 2.3 Streams -- 2.4 Watershed concept -- 2.5 Instrumentation and monitoring -- 2.6 Runoff processes and flow measurement -- 2.7 Rainfall-runoff analysis and modelling -- 2.8 Stream processes -- 2.9 Stream characteristics -- 2.10 River and reservoir routing -- 2.11 Scales and scaling -- 2.12 The invisible resource: groundwater -- 2.13 Tutorial -- 3 Groundwater hydrology -- 3.1 Occurrence of groundwater -- 3.2 Movement of groundwater -- 3.3 Hydraulic head -- 3.4 Dispersion -- 3.5 Specialized flow conditions -- 3.6 Groundwater measurements -- 3.7 Groundwater pollution -- 3.8 Composite nature of surface water and groundwater -- 3.9 Conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater -- 3.10 Tutorial -- 4 Well hydraulics and test pumping -- 4.1 Steady flow -- 4.2 Superposition in space and time -- 4.3 Boundaries and images in flow modelling -- 4.4 Well flow under special conditions -- 4.5 Well losses -- 4.6 Tutorial -- 5 Surface and groundwater flow modelling -- 5.1 Surface water flow modelling -- 5.2 Groundwater flow modelling -- 5.3 Surface and groundwater interactions and coupled/integrated modelling -- 6 Aqueous chemistry and human impacts on water quality -- 6.1 Principles and processes controlling composition of natural waters -- 6.2 Natural hydrochemical conditions in the subsurface -- 6.3 Presenting inorganic chemical data -- 6.4 Impact of human activities -- 6.5 Geochemical modelling -- 6.6 Chemical tracers. , 6.7 Groundwater - numerical modelling of solute transport -- 6.8 Relation between use and quality of water -- 6.9 Industrial use -- 6.10 Tutorial -- 7 Hydrologic tracing -- 7.1 Isotopes and radioactivity -- 7.2 Hydrologic tracers -- 7.3 Tracers and groundwater movement -- 7.4 Stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen -- 7.5 Dissolved noble gases -- 7.6 Models for interpretation of groundwater age -- 7.7 Tracers for estimation of groundwater recharge -- 7.8 Tutorial -- 8 Statistical analyses in hydrology -- 8.1 Descriptive statistics -- 8.2 Probability theory -- 8.3 Hydrologic frequency analysis -- 8.4 Nonparametric density estimation methods -- 8.5 Error analysis -- 8.6 Time series analysis -- 8.7 Tutorial -- 9 Remote sensing and GIS in hydrology -- 9.1 Principle of remote sensing -- 9.2 Approaches to data/image interpretation -- 9.3 Radar and microwave remote sensing -- 9.4 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- 9.5 Applications in hydrology -- 10 Urban hydrology -- 10.1 Water balance in urban areas -- 10.2 Disposal of waterborne wastes -- 10.3 New approaches and technologies for sustainable urbanization -- 11 Rainwater harvesting and artificial groundwater recharge -- 11.1 Historical perspective -- 11.2 Rainwater harvesting - some general remarks -- 11.3 Watershed management and water harvesting -- 11.4 Tutorial -- 12 Water resource development: the human dimensions -- 12.1 The global water crisis -- 12.2 Global initiatives -- 12.3 Water and ethics -- 12.4 Global water tele-connections and virtual water -- 13 Some case studies -- 13.1 The Yellow River Basin, China -- 13.2 The Colorado River Basin, United States -- 13.3 The Murray-Darling River Basin, Australia -- 13.4 The North Gujarat-Cambay region, Western India -- 14 Epilogue -- 14.1 Water and its properties, quality considerations, movement, and modelling of surface- and groundwater. , 14.2 Distribution of water in space and time -- 14.3 Water resource sustainability -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plate section faces page 172.