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Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds Kenneth N. Brooks, Peter F Ffolliott, Hans M. Gregersen, and Leonard F DeBano, Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA 50014. 1997. 502 p. $62.95. ISBN 0-8138-2287-4.
It is difficult to write a hydrology text effectively spanning the gamut from basic rainfall-runoff relationships at a point to considerations of the spatial variability of processes controlling storm hydrograph generation at the watershed outlet. It is even more difficult to write a text incorporating water quality aspects within the same watershed context. And finally, it is most difficult to write a text addressing hydrology, water quality, and management aspects at the watershed scale. Yet, as we are being faced with deteriorating water quality at the national and international scale, we are beginning to recognize that hydrology, water quality, and management alternatives must all be...