Choice Review

Emphasizing primarily the development and application of groundwater optimization models for the control of groundwater hydraulics and water quality, this volume is mathematically oriented and requires a basic understanding of groundwater hydraulics and hydrology. After a summary of methods and approaches of systems analysis techniques applied to groundwater management, the authors discuss the governing groundwater-flow equations, the mass-transport equation for groundwater quality, and the use of numerical methods. They then present some of the more common optimization methods used for management models-linear and quadratic programming, dynamic programming, penalty functions, and multiobjective optimization. Discussion of groundwater supply models covers general allocation problems, optimal development and operation, the capacity expansion problem, and the conjunctive management of groundwater and surface-water supplies. Groundwater quality management models are addressed and, finally, the inverse problem in groundwater systems is presented. An excellent feature is the inclusion of numerous examples to illustrate applications of the models. This book could be used as a text for an upper-division undergraduate or graduate course in groundwater planning and management; it would also be useful to consultants and other practitioners in field studies and analyses.-L. Canter, University of Oklahoma