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Sinhalese

The Sinhabees are not ancient- they are Indians who moved to Sri lanka from the North of India. there was already a Tamil civilzation in Existence in sri lanka when they arrived because of the close proximity of South india and northern sri lanka.The sinhalese who have tried to rewrite history would like one to believe that they were the ones who designed all the architectural and other artifacts.

Civil engineering?

Why is hydrology categorised under civil engineering? Earth science would be much more appropriate!

The field of hydrology developed from two different tracks. One, as you note, was earth sciences, or more accurately then, natural sciences. Even Galileo was a hydrologist, measuring the flow rate of rivers. But the uses of hydrology have long been in an engineering context, and originally in terms of river engineering. It subsequently grew to encompass water resources management, whose quantitative bent has been more a trait of engineering than of earth sciences. Daniel Collins 00:26, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hydrology is a standard degree course that is offered in civil engineering universities in the United States ... I'm not sure why hydrology is not also included in civil engineering. I'm stating this as a civil engineer whos area of specilization was in hydrology. I'm changing the category back to also include civil engineering. I can provide a list of US civil engineering programs that focus entirely on hydrology. MCalamari 17:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Is it safe to say that hydrology is an important part of Civil Engineering, but hydrology does not have its origins in Civil Engineering. There is distinction between how subjects relate in the technological sense, verses how disciplines relate in a historical context. In a political context Civil Engineering has tremendous economic incentive to lay claim to Hydrological Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Engineering, and Ecohydrological Engineering. In the USA this has been successful. However, globally Biosystems Engineering, and Agricultural Engineering remain active in these domains. Hydrology is a basic science shared by many disciplines. BrianAsh Oct. 2007.

Since I work in the engineering/science field, I can say that hydrology is practiced by engineers as it relates to the design of flood control structures (levees, weirs, dams, etc.). This is better defined by the term "hydraulic engineering" in my opinion. However, hydrology as a science (modeling, ecosystems, etc.) is practiced by a range of professionals: geographers, geologists, biologists and of course hydrologists. Pkrembs 23:46, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Hydrology and "hydraulic engineering" are different .... the civil engineers may be doing hydraulic engineering when they design flood defences and control structures, but they need to practice "hydrology" when they consider how much water they need to cope with. Melcombe (talk) 10:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Fleshing out the hydrology entry

I've recently expanded the hydrology entry and opened up a number of additional avenues to focus on. Please review and help out to fill in the holes or make necessary changes. Daniel Collins 00:30, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fluid dynamics?

How much and how does hydrology relate to fluid dynamics?D-rew 18:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Possible merging

I note that a cross-reference to "Water distribution on Earth" was added, with an indication that it might be merged in. I would suggest not doing this, but rather treating it in the same way as some of the existing cross-referencing higher up .... a brief paragraph with a link to a "main article". Melcombe (talk) 10:17, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Meanings of Aqueduct

For those interested, it would be useful to have some input regarding the multiple meanings of Aqueduct, particularly correct classification: Aqueduct#Suggested split. —Sladen (talk) 15:34, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Nash–Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient

Nash–Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient is a nearly orphaned article. Can anyone add appropriate links to it from other articles and add it to any appropriate topics lists? Michael Hardy (talk) 16:26, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

RELATIONSHIP WITH LIMNOLOGY

Should not Limnology be mentioned in this article in connection with Hydrology? Is it a branch or related field?George Rodney Maruri Game (talk) 02:47, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

I have added it under the heading "Related field". Melcombe (talk) 15:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Context and fluid dynamics

I have removed "fluid dynamics" from the lead because:

• It is just one of many things that might be listed, including all the wikilinks that appear in the section "Overview".
• The subject of "fluid dynamics" is mentioned nowhere else in the article, and the lead is meant to be a summary of the points made in the article: see WP:LEAD.
• At most "fluid dynmaics" is a related field ... most hydrologists would say that hydrology takes over where fluid dynmaics leaves off.

I have also removed the category Category:Physics, as hydology is not immediately a part of physics and no physicist would think so. Melcombe (talk) 10:41, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

External links

There's far too many external links on this page, some of which may be most useful as external links and some of which may be best incorporated as references. I'm not sure which to keep or which to integrate so I've moved them to this talk page for people more familiar with the topic to sort through. If others disagree with this removal, feel free to re-add the links but please consider the advice at Wikipedia:External links. Otherwise, re-add the {{External links}} tag but with an updated date parameter. ClaretAsh 14:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Other on-line resources

• Hydrology.nl – Portal to international hydrology and water resources
• The Modular Curriculum for Hydrologic Advancement - MOCHA
• International glossary of hydrology.
• Virtual campus in hydrology and water resources
• Decision tree to choose an uncertainty method for hydrological and hydraulic modelling
• Catchment Modelling Toolkit
• CITY DRAIN - Open source software for integrated modelling in urban drainage (Platform: MAtlab/Simulink, citydrain.bplaced.net)
• Experimental Hydrology Wiki
• Professor Ponce's Website: Informative Articles and Videos on Hydrology and Environmental Issues

National and international research bodies

• U.S. Geological Survey - Water Resources of the United States
• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - UK
• eawag - aquatic research, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Institute of Hydrology, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
• NOAA's National Weather Service - Office of Hydrologic Development, USA
• National Hydrology Research Center - Canada
• Hydrologic Research Center - A Non-Profit Research Corporation, USA
• Economics of Water Resource Management from Improved Forecasting, NOAA Economics, USA
• University of Oklahoma- Natural Hazards and Disaster Center/USA
• UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
• Centre for Water Science, Cranfield University, UK
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
• US Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center, USA

National and international societies

• International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
• Statistics in Hydrology Working Group (subgroup of IAHS)
• British Hydrological Society
• Russian Geographical Society (Moscow Centre) - Hydrology Commission
• International Assoc for Environmental Hydrology
• American Water Resources Association

Basin- and catchment-wide overviews

• Connected Waters Initiative, University of New South Wales — Investigating and raising awareness of groundwater and water resource issues in Australia