The book provides comprehensive, concise and up-to-date account of an important area of engineering i.e. Water Power Engineering. It covers the entire scope of the subject in a lucid manner to electrical and a mechanical equipment. All latest developments such as pumped storage, tidal power and tubular and bulb turbines for low head development have been adequately covered in the book. Special feature of the book is that interesting and relevant details from different typical hydro-power projects all over the world, including the developing countries, are quoted for the ready reference of the readers.

The book is profusely illustrated with self-explanatory diagrams. Each chapter contains a large number of illustrated examples with their solutions. Apart from these, unsolved problems have also been added at the end of each chapter for more practice.