本书共分两大部分，即英文专业文献阅读和英文科技文献阅读与翻译技巧，其中水利类相关专业知识的英语文献汇编，包括28个单元的专业性文献选编和相应的阅读材料，涉及地质、水循环、农田灌溉、水资源管理、水质、水库与大坝、水电站等方面，各单元正文后配有生词表和重点词句翻译讲解；专业英语翻译技巧，重点包括专业词汇的结构特点，专业文献的对照翻译原则、方法等。
本书可作为水利类各个专业，包括农业水利工程、水文与水资源工程、水利水电工程、海洋工程等专业英语选修教材，也可供从事城市规划、减灾防灾、土木工程等专业工程技术人员参考。

前言
Lesson 1 The Hydrologic Cycle
Lesson 2 Stream Processes and Stream Topography
Lesson 3 Sources of Water
Lesson 4 Three Great Classes of Rocks and Their Weathering
Lesson 5 Ground Water and Its Movement
科技英语翻译理论（一）
Lesson 6 Sources of Pollutants
Lesson 7 Water Supplies-A Growing Problem
Lesson 8 Watershed Water Management
Lesson 9 Flood
Lesson 10 Drought
Lesson 11 The Water Balance and Land-Use
Lesson 12 Irrigation
Lesson 13 Irrigation Canals
科技英语翻译理论（二）
Lesson 14 Irrigation Methods
Lesson 15 Losses and Waste of Irrigation Water
Lesson 16 Water, Plant and Soil
Lesson 17 Dam
Lesson 18 Hydropower Plant
Lesson 19 A Typical Hydroelectric-The Roselend Plant
Lesson 20 Pumped Storage Plants
Lesson 21 Penstocks
Lesson 22 Hydraulic Turbines
Lesson 23 Hydrogenerators
科技英语翻译理论（三）
Lesson 24 Soil Erosion
Lesson 25 Using and Saving
Lesson 26 Erosion Hazard
Lesson 27 Universal Soil Loss Equation
Lesson 28 Planning for Conservation of Soil and Water
Main References