McBride, who is principal scientist at a national institute for research in New Zealand, focuses on material not generally available elsewhere on using statistic analysis in water management. He does include a basic primer on statistics, but proceeds to specific topics on intervals, hypothesis testing, detection, and calculation methods. In a section on problems and solutions in water management he describes formulating water quality standards and percentiles, including a chapter on microbial matter and human health, and trends, impacts, concordance and detection limits. The appendices include statistical tables and McBride gives answers to the exercises in histext. Annotation ©2004 Book News,