The book, now in its second edition, provides an up-to-date comprehensive text on irrigation water management for students of agriculture both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The scope of the book makes it a useful reference for courses in agricultural engineering, agronomy, soil science, agricultural physics and environmental sciences. It will also serve as a valuable guidebook to those working with farming communities. The coverage in sixteen chapters brings out different aspects of irrigation including irrigation situation in the world, rainfall, evaporation, water wealth and progressive development of irrigation in India, measurement of soil water and irrigation water, methods of irrigation, irrigation with saline water, formulating cropping pattern in irrigated area and management of high water table. In the second edition, a new chapter on `On-farm Irrigation System' has been included and several chapters have been updated to include latest developments.