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I'm an extreme water nerd.

I agree with all of geocurious' recommendations. For textbooks, those are the main ones for groundwater, especially. Fetter is another mainstay. I'm sure you can find the textbooks easily enough.

As for less academic, Cadillac Desert is good and goes into the policy behind U.S. dam building (which is long but interesting). Water: The epic struggle... is a history of the world with some interesting connections to water (though doesn't get enough into the water, from my perspective).

As for beautiful writing about water, I can't recommend Loren Eiseley enough. The Immense Journey has some really great chapters about water (and then goes on and on about human evolution, but still ok). A really neat excerpt book about geologic themes is Bedrock and that is how I found my pal, Loren.

I have also been amassing a public Spotify playlist of songs that have a hydro-theme. Message me if you want it. Sitting at a couple hundred songs right now, but definitely biased towards my musical interests.

Other books:

• Unquenchable: I thought this was a rather haphazard, sensationalized, and doomsday perspective on water [I have a phd in hydro].
  
  A good list by someone else: Aguanomics
  
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Another favorite book is 'damming the Colorado river' from Robert h. Webb. It's a history piece from like third expedition down the Colorado river where an engineer named Birdseye and a team of surveyors and photographers mapped reservoir locations. The best part is their journals and gear lists, transcribed word for word so you can see what kind of equipment they had, who hated who, and so on. Really fun read as you get into it and there's a lot of hydro involved

Edit: Got the title wrong. We should have a book thread though
http://www.amazon.com/Damming-Grand-Canyon-Colorado-Expedition/dp/0874216605

I'm studying internal seiching - which is a large standing wave that occurs on the interface between warm and cold water in a lake. These are waves act on the entire length of a lake at once, and can amplitudes of 10's of meters. They are often one of the biggest drivers of water movements within a lake. While people have been studying them for decades, and in general they're well understood, there's still work to be done once the shape of the lakes starts becoming more complex.

For books, I'd recommend "Limnology" by Wetzel as a starting off point. I've still only read the first 4 or 5 chapters because that's the only part that pertains to physical limnology. I should read the rest of the book so I have a better understanding of the biological/ecological aspects of these systems.

I had these text books:
one, two, three, four
And I loved this book Cadillac Desert ; there's a lot more .....

As a follow up, here is what an 8-core laptop will do (look at quad and multi core performance): http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-1700-vs-Intel-Core-i5-5200U/3917vsm22169

https://www.amazon.com/Gaming-FreeSync-Display-Editing-GL702ZC/dp/B077GBJCNC

I strongly encourage you not to buy this kind of laptop because running a laptop for hard-core calculations will end in premature failure. They can't handle the heat they make. If you need to do 10 minutes of calculations then sure, get this Asus laptop but if you plan to let it run overnight then I doubt you'll get more than a few months out of a computer like this before it starts to act funny from hardware failures.