Historical development of the science of water -- fluid statics -- fluid kinematics -- governing equations of fluid motion -- ideal fluid flow -- viscous fluid flow-boudary layer -- dimensional analysis -- fluid flow measurements -- pipe flow -- pipe networks -- fluid machinery -- applications of basic fluid flow equations -- turbulence -- turbulence modelling -- computational fluid dynamics -- open channel flow -- gradually varied flow in open channels -- rapidly varying flows -- hydraulics of alluvial channels -- channel stability analysis -- sediment transport and deposition -- environmental hydraulics -- major hydraulic structures in the world -- hydrological cycle and its principal processes -- hydro-meteorology -- precipitation --evaporation and evapo-transpiration -- infiltration -- runoff -- analysis and presentation of rainfall -- unit hydrograph methods -- rainfall-runoff modelling -- flood routing -- flow through saturated porous media -- statistical methods in hydrology -- systems theory approacg to hydrological modelling -- time series analysis and forecasting -- water-state of the resource -- sources and demand for water -- challenges in coping with water problems.