Introduction -- Objective Functions -- Basic Canal Hydraulics -- General Principles of Canal Design -- Design for Minimum Flow Area -- Minimum Section Cost Canals -- Minimum Water-Loss Canals Section -- Overall Minimum Cost Canal Sections -- Design of Canal Transitions -- Optimal Design of Transmission Canal -- Salient Features of Canal Route Alignment -- Lambert's W-Function -- Schwarz-Christoffel Transform -- Solution of Cubic Equation -- Index.