1: Introduction
1.1. Major water types
1.2. Hydrological cycle
1.3. Drainage basin hydrological processes
1.4. Water balance
2: Atmospheric water
2.1. Cloud formation
2.2. Generation of precipitation
2.3. Precipitation types
2.4. Measuring precipitation
2.5. Areal precipitation
2.6. Evaporation types and measurement
2.7. Estimating evaporation: Penman-Monteith
3: Groundwater
3.1. Misconceptions
3.2. Drilling a hole
3.3. Bernoulli to the aid
3.4. Aqui
3.5. Effective infiltration velocity and infiltration rate
3.6. The soil as a wet sponge
3.7. Brothers in science: Darcy and Ohm
3.8. Refracting the water
3.9. Keep it simple and confined
3.10. Continuity and its consequences
3.11. Going Dutch
3.12. Flow nets
3.13. Groundwater flow regimes and systems
3.14. Fresh and saline: Ghijben-Herzberg
3.15. Groundwater hydraulics
4: Soil water
4.1. Negative water pressures
4.2. Determining the total potential
4.3. The soil as dry filter paper or a wet sponge
4.4. The soil moisture characteristic
4.5. Drying and wetting: hysteresis
4.6. Unsaturated water flow
4.7. Moving up: capillary rise and evaporation
4.8. Moving down: infiltration and percolation
4.9. Preferential flow
5: Surface water
5.1. Bernoulli revisited
5.2. Measuring stage, water velocity and discharge
5.3. Hydrograph analysis
5.4. Conceptual rainfall-runoff models
5.5. Variable source area hydrology
A. Alternative hydrological terms
B. Boxes inventory
C. Conceptual Toolkit
D. Answers to the exercises
M. Mathematics Toolboxes