本教材旨在帮助学生和相关人员提高阅读或翻译水利水电类专业科技英语文献及资料的能力，希望通过本书的学习能够使学生熟悉典型的科技英语句型、文体；掌握科技英语文献翻译的基本技巧；为学生提供一部分专业英语词汇和常用词组及短语。本书的目的仅在于介绍英语的语言特点，并非介绍工程技术本身，这一点务必请读者理解。

本书是水利水电类专业本、本科大学生学习专业英语的教材，内容涉及水利水电工程领域的各个专业面，包括水利水资源、农田水利、水工结构、水电站和河流泥沙工程。书中的英文原文大多选自国外经典著作，并含有较详细的注释和专业英语词汇及短语。本书还可作为水利水电类企事业单位工程技术人员和管理人员学习专业英语的培训教材。

Ⅰ HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY

1 Hydrological Cycle and Budget

2 Unit Hydrographs

3 Flood Routing

4 Water Quality Models

Ⅱ WATER RESOURCES

1 Water Resources Planning

2 Water Resources for Sustainable Development

3 Water Resources

4 Reservoir Coutrol

Ⅲ IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE

1 Consumptive Use of Water

2 Irigation

3 Groundwater Occurrences and the Hydrological Cyele

4 Operation

5 Identification of Costs and Benefits

6 Benetit-Cost Analysis

7 Interest

8 Environmental Assessment

9 Interrdlation of Irrigation and Drainage

10 Hydraulie Conductivity

11 Types of Drainage Problems

12 Differences in Drainage in Humid and Arid Areas

13 Main and Field Drainage Systems

14 Classification of Drainage Methods

15 Drainage for Salinity Control

16 Dikes

17 Pump Installations

18 Pumps

Ⅳ HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE

1 Planning Approach and Its Physical Factors

2 Selection of Dam Sites and Sizes

3 Investigation of Construction Materials

4 Geologic and Foundation Investigations

5 Design of Earth Dams

6 Design of Concrete-Faced Rockfill Dams

7 Design of Concrete Dams

8 Design of Arch Dams

9 Design of Gravity Dams

10 Design of Spillways

11 Conveyance Structures

12 Canal Head Works

13 Gates in Hydraulic Installation

14 Operation and Maintenance of Hydraulic Works

Ⅴ HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION

1 Concrete-Faced Rockfill Dams' Plinth Construction

2 Details of Several Diversion Tunnels

3 The Basic Mechanisms in Homogeneous Rock Blasting

4 The Diversion of Rivers in Dam Construction

5 The Upper Stillwater Dam' RCC Placing Operation

6 Time Value of Money

Ⅵ HYDROPOWER STATION AND TURBINE

1 Energy and Power of Water Flow

2 Intake Structures

3 Penstocks

4 Water Hammer in Penstocks

5 Surge Tanks

6 Layout of Hydroelectric Power Stations

7 Underground Power Houses

8 Power Houses of Pumped-Storage Plants

9 Types of Hydraulic Turbine

10 Turbine Cases

11 Draft Tubes

12 Synchronous Generators

13 Speed Control and Govemors (1)

14 Speed Control and Governors (2)

15 Auxiliary Equipment

Ⅶ RIVER ENGINEERING

1 Some Problems Related to Alluvial Rivers (1)

2 Some Problems Related to Alluvial Rivers (2)

3 Origin and Formation of Sediments

4 The Size and Shape of Sediment

5 The Moving States of Sediment

6 Sediment Transport and Rivers

7 Channel Forms (1)

8 Channel Forms (2)

9 Stabilization and Rectification of Rivers

10 Navigation

11 Flood Diversions (1)

12 Flood Diversions (2)