Description: Groundwater Hydrology is a classic textbook that provides a unified presentation of groundwater hydrology, treating fundamental principles, methods, and problems encountered in the field as a whole. Continuing its forty-year history of providing students and professionals with a thorough grounding in the science and technology of groundwater hydrology, the book explores the many new developments that have occurred in the groundwater field in recent years, concerns and competition for water supplies, contamination of groundwater, and enhanced regulation of water resources. The book also focuses on modern groundwater modeling tools, including a detailed description of MODFLOW.

About the Author: David Keith Todd, worldwide authority on groundwater, retired from the University of California and became professor emeritus on December 30, 1980. Dr. Todd’s work appeared in 123 articles, books, papers, reports, and other publications. His book Groundwater Hydrology was published in 1959, the second edition in 1980. It has been used in more than 50 US universities, and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Persian, Hindi, and Malaysian. Larry W. Mays has been a professor at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University since 1989. He served as chair from 1989-1996. Prior to that he was director of the Center for Research in Water Resources and holder of an Engineering Foundation Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was on the faculty since 1976.