This book focusses on flood prediction and control, hydropower design and construction technology, water and environment, comprehensive water treatment, urban water supply and drainage, environmental prediction and control techniques in environmental geoscience, environmental ecology, atmospheric sciences, ocean engineering, safety engineering and environmental pollution control, and is invaluable to academics and professionals in both hydraulic and environmental engineering.

Liquan Xie, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Preface; Sponsor: 2012 SREE conference on hydraulic engineering; Evaluation and selection on multi-dimensional regulation schemes for water cycle system: A case study of Haihe River basin; Characteristics of uniform turbulent flow with steep slopes; Multi-objective function based on sensitivity for calibration Xinanjiang model; Study on longitudinal dispersion caused by vertical shear in ice-covered rivers; Distribution scheme study of the Guhai pump-water project from Yellow River in salt chemical industry park; Burst detection in water distribution systems based on artificial immune system; The application of SWMM model based on GIS in the piedmont rain control: A case study in Beiwucun gravel pit of Beijing, China; Study on applications of neural network to flood forecasting in Yiluo River; Application of Ensemble Kalman filter in parameter calibration of Muskingum model; Discussion on the selection of influent water quality of municipal wastewater treatment plant; Application of progressive optimality algorithm to cascade reservoir optimal operation in flood control; The effect of train load and water coupling to track crack growth; A spatial decision support system for water resource management of Yellow River Basin in China; On energy dissipation of hydraulic jumps at low Froude numbers considering bubbles formation and transportation process; Research on time-varying resistance attenuation law of hydraulic steel gate members; Near-dam reach propagation characteristics of daily regulated unsteady flow released from Xiangjiaba Hydropower Station; Study on flood storage and water logging control in Huainan mining subsidence area; Research of CCS Hydropower Station Bieri sand-flushing facility test; Model design comparative experiment of reservoir sediment transport piping suction head; Study on the key technique of the control system adjustment for the Yellow River estuary model; Long-term water temperature simulation for Miyun Reservoir; Regulated deficit irrigation effects on Tomato growth and irrigation water use efficiency; Reservoir self-suction sediment transport piping practice and research progress; Application of steel fiber reinforced shotcrete in dam strengthening project; An experiment about diversion recharge in Sibaishu Haize Lake of Jingbian county; Numerical model of the spiral flow in the 90° elbow; Drainage system vulnerability analysis of Beijing under the rainstorm; Study on the reservoirs ecological operation in Shule River irrigation area; A simple approach for tunnel face stability in soft ground; Novel computational implementations for stability analysis of rock masses; The 2nd SREE workshop on environment and safety engineering.