Abstract:
Water is a vital natural resource. Hydrological modelling is an essential aspect of any
development project for planning, designing, executing, and managing water resources
efficiently. A hydrologic model simplifies a real-world system (e.g., surface water, soil water,
wetland, groundwater, estuary) that aids in understanding, predicting, and managing water
resources. Both the flow and quality of water are commonly studied using hydrologic models.
SWAT is widely used in assessing soil erosion prevention and control, non-point source
pollution control and regional management in watersheds. This training course was designed
to impart and transfer the working knowledge of using a semi-distributed hydrological model
called the Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), which is a small watershed to river basin scale model used to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and ground water and predict
the environmental impact of land use, land management practices, and climate change.
