**Meet the editor**

Dr. Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy is a faculty member at School of Civil Engineering, Surveying and Construction, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. After acquiring his Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, he graduated with a Master's degree in Irrigation Water Management from Anna University, India. He received his Doctoral degree from Indian Institute

of Technology Roorkee, India for his research work on pollutant transport studies and continued as a research associate to carry out sponsored research project on minimum flow requirement of river system for ecology. He has also worked in an affiliated state engineering institute. Presently, he is collaborating with a research team to carry out SANPAD sponsored ecosystem project for St. Lucia estuarine lake system in South Africa. He is actively involved in teaching and research activities at UKZN, South Africa. He has been awarded with various Indian fellowships from Ministry of HRD, Ministry of Water Resources and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. He engages himself in professional activities as editor, editorial board member and a reviewer for various international journals.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Comparing Extreme Rainfall** 

Chapter 2 **Flash Flood Hazards 27** 

František Burger

Adelana Michael

Chapter 5 **Modelling of Surface Water** 

**Part 1 Surface Water and Groundwater Management 1** 

Dénes Lóczy, Szabolcs Czigány and Ervin Pirkhoffer

**on the Danube River – A Case Study in Slovakia 53** 

**Resource Management in a Semi-Arid Climate 77** 

**Guadiana River Watershed, Southwest Iberia 159**  Helena M. Galvão, Margarida P. Reis, Rita B. Domingues, Sandra M. Caetano, Sandra Mesquita, Ana B. Barbosa, Cristina Costa, Carlos Vilchez and Margarida Ribau Teixeira

Chapter 3 **Change of Groundwater Flow Characteristics After** 

**in Aquifer Systems – Implications for** 

**Quality by Catchment Model SWAT 107** 

Chapter 4 **Changes in Groundwater Level Dynamics** 

**Part 2 Water Quality Management 105** 

Matjaž Glavan and Marina Pintar

Chapter 7 **Ecological Tools for the Management of Cyanobacteria Blooms in the** 

Chapter 6 **Evolution of Water Quality in Romania 133**  Ioan Oroian and Antonia Odagiu

**Inundation Risk – Evidence from a Dutch Case-Study 3** 

**Construction of the Waterworks System Protective Measures** 

**and Large-Scale Flooding Induced** 

E.E. Koks, H. de Moel and E. Koomen
