— Rutland Water 1970–1981.- One: Rutland Water: The Resource for Public Water Supply.- Rutland Water — from conception to operation.- A ‘regrettable necessity’ — the decision to construct.- Escaping from prison: an economic reassessment of Rutland Water.- Two: The Reservoir in the Rutland Environment.- The landscape of Rutland Water.- Perimeter forestry and landscape works at Rutland Water.- Tree pre-planting at Rutland Water.- Area structure plans of Leicestershire County and Rutland District Councils.- Traffic and visitor surveys at Rutland Water.- Rutland 2000: educational resources of Rutland Water.- Archaeological discoveries at Rutland Water.- Three: Water Quality, Algal Ecology and Reservoir Management.- Circulation patterns; their investigation and prediction.- Vertical movements of the surface water and thermal stratification in Rutland Water.- The effect of Langmuir circulation on the distribution and settling of algae and suspended particles.- Models of annual cycles in lentic water bodies.- Rutland Water raw water quality — problems and management.- The production of public supply drinking water from Rutland Water at the Wing Treatment Works.- Rutland Water phytoplankton: the development of an asset or a nuisance?.- Four: Zoological Ecology and Reservoir Management.- Zooplankton and their relationships with water quality and fisheries.- Benthic invertebrates of Rutland Water.- The leeches of Rutland Water.- Studies on two species of Asellus in Rutland Water.- Bathymetric distribution of some Chironomidae (Diptera) in Rutland Water.- The protozoan epizooites found on the gills of Gammarus pulex.- The control of a fly nuisance problem in a woodland area adjacent to Rutland Water.- Establishing and maintaining the trout fishery at Rutland Water.- The feeding of trout during the filling phase of Rutland Water.- Temporal variations in the diet of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) and rainbow trout (S. gairdneri R.) in Rutland Water.- The population dynamics of eyeflukes Diplostomum spathaceum and Tylodelphuys clavata (Digenea: Diplostomatidae) in rainbow and brown trout in Rutland Water: 1974–1978.- Rutland Water Nature Reserve: concept, design and management.- The distribution of micro-organisms through a bunded lagoon in Rutland Water.- Wildlife surveys of the reservoir site prior to inundation 1971–1976.